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  • What Even IS a Religion?
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    What Even IS a Religion?

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/10/2024

    Why is defining what is a religion and what is not, so difficult?

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • How Many Religions Are There?
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    How Many Religions Are There?

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/17/2024

    Learn why “world religions” is a category constructed by human choice.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • What's the Difference Between Cults and Religion?
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    What's the Difference Between Cults and Religion?

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/24/2024

    What is a cult? How are cults different from religions?

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • What's the Difference Between Religion and Magic?
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    What's the Difference Between Religion and Magic?

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/1/2024

    Is there really a difference between magic and religion?

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Infinite Stories of Hinduism
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    The Infinite Stories of Hinduism

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/8/2024

    What does it mean to be Hindu?

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Life, the Universe, and the Buddha
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    Life, the Universe, and the Buddha

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/15/2024

    Let's explore the ways Buddhists try to leave that suffering behind and reach enlightenment.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Can a River Be A Person?
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    Can a River Be A Person?

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/22/2024

    What does it mean for a river to be a person? An ancestor, even?

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • What Does it Mean to Be Jewish
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    What Does it Mean to Be Jewish

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/29/2024

    What does it mean to be Jewish?

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Sacrifice, Redemption, and Miracles: The Story of Christianity
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    Sacrifice, Redemption, and Miracles: The Story of Christianity

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/5/2024

    Christianity isn’t just about Jesus.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The History and Practice of Islam on Earth and Beyond
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    The History and Practice of Islam on Earth and Beyond

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/12/2024

    In this episode of Crash Course Religions, we dig into the beliefs, pillars, and spread of Islam.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Religions of the African Diaspora
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    Religions of the African Diaspora

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/19/2024

    African religions include Islam and Christianity, but also hundreds of diverse and complex indigenou

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Are Confucianism and Daoism philosophies or religions?
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    Are Confucianism and Daoism philosophies or religions?

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 11/26/2024

    In this episode of Crash Course Religions, we’ll learn about Confucianism and Daoism!

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Is Atheism a Religion?
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    Is Atheism a Religion?

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/3/2024

    We break down the different flavors of atheism and non-belief and ask if atheism is a religion?

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • How Do Religious Texts Work?
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    How Do Religious Texts Work?

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/10/2024

    Sacred texts mean vary amongst religions—sometimes they’re essential to belief and other times not.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • What Does Ritual Have to Do with Religion?
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    What Does Ritual Have to Do with Religion?

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/17/2024

    Rituals can mark time and space, create new identities, and connect people to something bigger.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Who Speaks for a Religion?
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    Who Speaks for a Religion?

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/7/2025

    Religious leaders play a big role in shaping religions today. But who speaks for a religion?

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Death and Afterlife Across Religions
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    Death and Afterlife Across Religions

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/14/2025

    Everybody dies—and then what?

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Religion, Spirituality, and the Supernatural
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    Religion, Spirituality, and the Supernatural

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/21/2025

    What does it mean to be "spiritual but not religious"?

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Are Science and Religion Compatible?
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    Are Science and Religion Compatible?

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/28/2025

    Do religion and science always have to be in conflict?

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • What Do Sex and Gender Have to Do with Religion?
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    What Do Sex and Gender Have to Do with Religion?

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/4/2025

    What do sex, gender, and sexuality have to do with religion?

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • What Does Race Have to Do with Religion?
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    What Does Race Have to Do with Religion?

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/11/2025

    In this episode, we'll unpack racism’s roots in religious colonialism, and what that means for us.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Visions of the End of the World
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    Visions of the End of the World

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/18/2025

    How will the world end? In this episode, we explore end-of-the-world predictions.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • What Does Religious Freedom Mean?
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    What Does Religious Freedom Mean?

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/25/2025

    We might agree religious freedom is a good thing—but can we agree on what it really means?

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Religions and Pop Culture
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    Religions and Pop Culture

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/4/2025

    We’ll explore how religion shapes pop culture, and pop culture shapes religion right back.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown