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Ended · 2024–2025

Crash Course Religions

John Green will explore the history and culture of religions and how they offer frameworks for making sense of our lives, while being incredibly slippery things to pin down. We'll discover how we define, debate, and contest what religion means, whether we're personally religious or not.

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Seasons & episodes

Season 1 · 24 episodes
  1. S01 E01 · What Even IS a Religion?
  2. S01 E02 · How Many Religions Are There?
  3. S01 E03 · What's the Difference Between Cults and Religion?
  4. S01 E04 · What's the Difference Between Religion and Magic?
  5. S01 E05 · The Infinite Stories of Hinduism
  6. S01 E06 · Life, the Universe, and the Buddha
  7. S01 E07 · Can a River Be A Person? | Indigenous Traditions
  8. S01 E08 · What Does it Mean to Be Jewish
  9. S01 E09 · Sacrifice, Redemption, and Miracles: The Story of Christianity
  10. S01 E10 · The History and Practice of Islam on Earth and Beyond
  11. S01 E11 · Religions of the African Diaspora
  12. S01 E12 · Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism
  13. S01 E13 · Is Atheism a Religion?
  14. S01 E14 · How Do Religious Texts Work?
  15. S01 E15 · What Does Ritual Have to Do with Religion?
  16. S01 E16 · Who Speaks for a Religion?
  17. S01 E17 · Death and Afterlife Across Religions
  18. S01 E18 · Religion, Spirituality, and the Supernatural
  19. S01 E19 · Are Science and Religion Compatible?
  20. S01 E20 · What Do Sex and Gender Have to Do with Religion?
  21. S01 E21 · What Does Race Have to Do with Religion?
  22. S01 E22 · Visions of the End of the World
  23. S01 E23 · What Does Religious Freedom Mean?
  24. S01 E24 · Religions and Pop Culture

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