Travel across lands and centuries to explore the story of the Ottoman Empire, one of the largest and longest-lasting empires in history. Starting from a small kingdom in Turkey, the Ottomans grew into a powerful force that stretched...

Hindu Denominations Explained

In this video, Savage from Alma Qadima provides a comprehensive overview of the family tree of the Gurus of the Sikh religion, as well as key figures in Sikh and Punjabi history. From the founder, Baba Nanak, to the establishment of the...

In this video, the presenter introduces the ancient Mesopotamian gods and their stories. He explains that while there are no definitive versions of these stories, some of them may sound familiar. The video covers the creation of the...

Histomap of Religion by John B. Sparks

How do organizations elicit compliance from their members? Amitai Etzioni addressed this question, concluding that there are three types of organization, each wielding a different sort of power.

Historian and social anthropologist Nile Green, UCLA, describes why he uses the model of “religious economy” as an “anti-rhetoric” to deliberately get people to think about religion and core religious principles in a new and different way.

This video explores five fun facts about Hinduism.

What is Shinto? This is Episode 1 of a 5-part series introducing what some call the indigenous Japanese religion. What is it all about? What are kami? And how do people practice it?

Religion is a tough subject to study. One of the reasons why is because we bring our own preconceptions about particular religions to the subject. Our stereotypes affect how we interpret different religious traditions. This can lead to...

Conflict between Islamic, Hindu, Christian, and scientific traditions, and how antagonism shapes cultural and political debate – fueling Islamophobia and other discrimination – form the basis of Peter Gottschalk’s work.  As well as...

Religious Literacy can be summarized in three key assumptions about religion. It is not simply learning every detail about world religions.

What were they looking for in China? Where could the Jewish presence be found in China in the past?<br/>
The Silk Roads: Ideas and Religion, Part 6

Salem is a small city in Massachusetts, most famous for being the site of the Salem Witch Trials. Because of this dubious history, Salem has become a hub for New Religious Movements. Tens of thousands of people travel there in October...

Jediism came to prominence in 2001 during the UK census when a bunch of people claimed to be "Jedi" as their religion. But there also is a real-world movement of people calling themselves Jediists, followers of Jediism. How should...

Mythology & Fiction Explained explores the seven demon princes of hell using the classification of demons by Peter Binsfeld whch is based on the seven deadly sins

A mysterious ancient religion from northern Iraq is in danger! Let's learn about them.

You probably have heard about the canonical Gospels in the New Testament. They introduce famous characters like the apostles Peter and John. But they also introduce not-so-famous characters that only show up for one chapter or...

In this video, the speaker discusses the potential response of Singapore to a terrorist attack and the need for unity and resilience. They explore different suggestions to improve religious harmony in the country, such as...

What does unbelief look like in children? Is non-belief in God accompanied by a rejection of the supernatural? How much is unbelief transmitted to children and how much comes from their own analysis of the world?

A History of...

Where do the names, but where do these names such as Satan, Lucifer, Beelzebub, and the Devil come from. In this video we try and summon the man himself, and after that fails Patrick from the channel Name Explain steps in to fill us in....

Anthropologists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries hypothesized that animism was the earliest religion. But later scholars have called this theory into question. What is animism? And how should we categorize it? This video was...

Hear from two cyber leaders at Twilio and Slaughter and May on how to manage risks while dealing with mergers and acquisitions.

Sometimes practised far away from the world and sometimes in the full glare of hostile media, there are thousands of new religions. With examples, such as the Moonies, Scientology, the Missionary Church of Kopimism, Paganism and the...