Religion: Crash Course Sociology #39

It's always mindboggling to read that 70% of US citizens consider themselves religious (or that religion plays a major part in their life) as someone from a secular country, in my whole life I've maybe met a handful of people here that were actually religious.

i imagine this was difficult to write without causing offence to everyone, religious or not - impressively done.

As an Agnostic I love learning about different religions. Thanks for this informative video from an open-minded perspective! :)

I love your sociology videos, since you take on topics from different perspectives and theories, hence producing a more logical argument, instead of following the trend or finding faults in everything. Great educational videos.

Literally have an exam tomorrow for this, thanks!

Hey Nicole I just want to let you know these videos helped me study for my CLEP exam. This video was especially helpful, there were several questions related to religion on my test the answers to which you give in this video. Very lucky for me that you dropped it two days before my test.

I LOVE YOU AND YOUR VIDEOS! I am a sociology major in my senior year and you always help me with my assignments. Thanks crashcourse, she needs a raise! 👏🏾👏🏾

great stuff! difficult to do a brief overview of such a complex topic, and you nailed it! thank you for these great videos.

When you think about it, Churches are actually just really extensive book clubs 😂

Oh hey. The comments are relatively tame. I think that's the sign of a well made video and healthy community. Good job, CC. To contribute to discussion, wherever you fall on the religious spectrum, remember that your greatest love informs your life direction as a whole.

I feel you missed a big opportunity in this video, especially near the end in the section called "How religious practice in the US differs across race and class lines," where you could have mentioned Auguste Comte's understanding of religion as being a thing in which people orient their life in which he attempted to create the secular Religion of Humanity. It may be the case that you may have a video on the sociological aspect of what practicing religion does for people with the secularization of young people. Similarly, the author bell hooks has written that an aspect of Feminism is for people to have a healthy spiritual life, so there seems to be an aspect of practice there as well beyond the simple (badly formulated) question of God or no God.

This is such a great video! Thank you for making it so much easier to teach soc of religion!

I was waiting for this topic to crop up. I'm so happy! I love studying religion.

Loved your videos, densely packed with relevant information. For those who are heated, she is just sharing some ideas of the anthropologist.

Simply thank you, Crash Course!!!

Everyone's excited for the non-existent war in the comments😂😂😂

anyone else watching this for a class ???

i love you for the work you do. My sociology professor is a quack and if not for you, I would be screwed.

These videos always match up perfectly with my notes. I love Crash Course

just...thank yall for making this info accessible and doing your best to share sociology, sorry for all the commenters who apparently believe that opinions formed on personal experience and prejudice outweigh decades of empirical research