Religions and Pop Culture - Is Star Wars a religion? What about belief in UFOs or QAnon? In our final episode of Crash Course Religions, we’ll explore how religion shapes pop culture, and pop culture shapes religion right back.
We’ll explore how religion shapes pop culture, and pop culture shapes religion right back.
We might agree religious freedom is a good thing—but can we agree on what it really means?
How will the world end? In this episode, we explore end-of-the-world predictions.
In this episode, we'll unpack racism’s roots in religious colonialism, and what that means for us.
What do sex, gender, and sexuality have to do with religion?
Do religion and science always have to be in conflict?
What does it mean to be "spiritual but not religious"?
Everybody dies—and then what?
Religious leaders play a big role in shaping religions today. But who speaks for a religion?
Rituals can mark time and space, create new identities, and connect people to something bigger.
Sacred texts mean vary amongst religions—sometimes they’re essential to belief and other times not.
We break down the different flavors of atheism and non-belief and ask if atheism is a religion?
In this episode of Crash Course Religions, we’ll learn about Confucianism and Daoism!
African religions include Islam and Christianity, but also hundreds of diverse and complex indigenou
In this episode of Crash Course Religions, we dig into the beliefs, pillars, and spread of Islam.
Christianity isn’t just about Jesus.
What does it mean to be Jewish?
What does it mean for a river to be a person? An ancestor, even?
Let's explore the ways Buddhists try to leave that suffering behind and reach enlightenment.
What does it mean to be Hindu?
Is there really a difference between magic and religion?
What is a cult? How are cults different from religions?
Learn why “world religions” is a category constructed by human choice
Why is defining what is a religion and what is not, so difficult?
Welcome to Crash Course Religions! Over the next 24 episodes, 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. Episode 1 premieres on September 10, 2024.
