Getting stuck in a video game can be frustrating—especially when that game is the cycle of suffering. In this episode of Crash Course Religions, we’ll explore the ways Buddhists try to leave that suffering behind and reach enlightenment, using the teachings of the Buddha, the three jewels, the four noble truths, and the eightfold path.
Chapters:
Introduction: Game Over
Buddhist Beliefs
The Buddha
The Dharma
The Sangha
Review & Credits
Credits

Freedom of religion or belief is an increasingly relevant topic in human society. Lifting the Spirit: Human Rights and Freedom of Religion or Belief provides comprehensive and thought-provoking lessons about the human right to freedom of religion or belief without surveying world religions or endorsing any particular belief. Lifting the Spirit relates the worship, observances, practices, and teachings of all religions and beliefs to fundamental human rights principles. It provides background information, ideas for taking action, and interactive exercises to help people learn about the freedom of religion or belief: a right that is guaranteed in Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Designed for use in secondary classrooms, religious institutions, and youth advocacy organizations around the world, both the content and organization of Lifting the Spirit aim to be adaptable to many different national and cultural settings.

This course will help you understand, and more importantly, live Catholic Social Teaching (CST). Catholic Social Teaching is the Catholic Church's doctrine concerning issues relevant to society, which guides us to "love one another" (John 13:34) in our complex world. The course focuses on the four core CST principles: dignity of life, common good, solidarity, and subsidiarity, as well as integral human development, universal destination of goods, and preferential option for the poor. The course examines these principles in five major life areas: work, economy, politics, creation care, and peace. Each lesson also includes questions and prompts for applying and living CST in your daily life. 

Taken from Deborah Gill's New Testament Theology of Discipleship: An Anthology, here is the essay by Julia Ramos titled, "A Lucan Theology of Demons and Evil Spirits." The essay has been enhanced with multimedia components (video and images) but the text itself has not been altered.  

Une approche théologique et psychopédagogique - A Theological and Psychopedagogial approach

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Comment peut-on conceptualiser la pauvreté au sein de l’église ? Quelle doit être l’attitude du chrétien face à la pauvreté ? Plus précisément, partant de l’hypothèse qu’il existe un lien entre la pauvreté et le sous-développement, le livre tente de répondre aux questions suivantes : Comment peut-on conceptualiser le terme de développement ? Quelles sont les attitudes qui encouragent et qui favorisent le développement ? « L’église et la lutte contre la pauvreté en Haiti », invite les leaders religieux à conjuguer leurs efforts en vue de réduire la pauvreté à son plus bas niveau dans la société haïtienne en général et au sein de l’église en particulier. ------How can we conceptualize poverty within the church? What should be the attitude of the Christian towards poverty? More precisely, starting from the hypothesis that there is a link between poverty and underdevelopment, the book attempts to answer the following questions: How can we conceptualize the term development? What are the attitudes that encourage and promote development? "The Church and the Fight Against Poverty in Haiti" invites religious leaders to join their efforts to reduce poverty to its lowest level in Haitian society in general and within the church in particular.

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Comment peut-on conceptualiser la pauvreté au sein de l’église ? Quelle doit être l’attitude du chrétien face à la pauvreté ? Plus précisément, partant de l’hypothèse qu’il existe un lien entre la pauvreté et le sous-développement, le livre tente de répondre aux questions suivantes : Comment peut-on conceptualiser le terme de développement ? Quelles sont les attitudes qui encouragent et qui favorisent le développement ? « L’église et la lutte contre la pauvreté en Haiti », invite les leaders religieux à conjuguer leurs efforts en vue de réduire la pauvreté à son plus bas niveau dans la société haïtienne en général et au sein de l’église en particulier.

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How can we conceptualize poverty within the church? What should be the attitude of the Christian towards poverty? More precisely, starting from the hypothesis that there is a link between poverty and underdevelopment, the book attempts to answer the following questions: How can we conceptualize the term development? What are the attitudes that encourage and promote development? « The Church and the Fight Against Poverty in Haiti » invites religious leaders to join their efforts to reduce poverty to its lowest level in Haitian society in general and within the church in particular.

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This video from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly gives a primer on the history and evolution of madrasahs, institutes of higher learning in Islamic studies.

Spiritual, magical, and “occult” aspects of human behavior in anthropological and historical perspective: magic, ritual curing, trance, spirit possession, sorcery, and accusations of witchcraft. Material drawn from traditional nonwestern societies, medieval and early modern Europe, and colonial and contemporary North America.

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The book examines the work of Terence Grieder, an early pre-Columbian art historian of wide-ranging interests and often provocative stances. His students and other intellectual descendants discuss his major ideas through examples drawn from their own work. The work of those he mentored is in the end the most important testament to his continuing influence in the field.

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This assignment is designed as a mini-research project with the purpose of having students engage with marginalized actors in history. The purpose is to help students find themselves in the archives by focusing on self-representation that is important to their own socio-economic and ethnic groups. By providing historical research in the form of primary and secondary documents on figures that have been historically "left out" of the historical narrative, the students will help fill the gaps in the archive, be active in the creation of new curriculum, and gain a better understanding of marginalization and the power of historical memory in the process.

In which Mike Rugnetta teaches you about Ma'ui, prominent hero of many cultures in Oceania, aka the Pacific Island nations. Ma'ui is just the kind of hero we're interested in here at Crash Course. He's a culture hero, he's a an adventurer, he has a divine birth, AND he's a trickster. In short, he's pretty cool, and the tasks he accomplishes in his life are great examples of how human stories can touch on universal themes.

This course provides an exploration of colonial and postcolonial clashes between theories of healing and embodiment in the African world and those of western bio-medicine. It examines how Afro-Atlantic religious traditions have challenged western conceptions of illness, healing, and the body and have also offered alternative notions of morality, rationality, kinship, gender, and sexuality. It also analyzes whether contemporary western bio-medical interventions reinforce colonial or imperial power in the effort to promote global health in Africa and the African diaspora.

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This book is about Islamic history and how it pertains to us in the world forum of Christians and Muslims as well.

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Mind the Gap encourages you to be mindful of that gap that takes place in various transitions in life: when you go away to college, travel to a foreign country, move to a new city, or start a new job. Until you start to feel at home in your new environment, you must negotiate feelings of discomfort. Mindfulness draws attention to your experience of transition, enabling you to cultivate an embodied presence, receptivity, and awareness of whatever arises in yourself and your surroundings, without judging or rejecting your experience. All too often, when we feel uncomfortable or unsettled, we immediately want to alleviate our feelings of discomfort by seeking comfort or distraction. When we do this, we rob ourselves of the opportunity to grow and develop in new ways.

Lillie invites the viewer for a trip back in time to the Mogao Caves in China.

In this activity you will explore some of the natural hazards associated with the Himalayan monsoon as an impact on Hindu pilgrims on their holy pilgrimage through readings and videos and answering the questions listed. The purpose of this activity is to demonstrate an understanding of the hazard impacts of monsoon rains on mountain people in Uttarakhand, India.
*Note: This activity is related to the mapping project titled, "Yamuna: A Deep Mapping Project". This is the second activity and it is recommended that the activity "How Monsoons in Indian Himalaya are Formed" should be given to students first.

This week, we're starting our discussion of Mythical Creatures with the WORST creatures. Monsters. What makes a monster monstrous though? Mike Rugnetta will guide you through the fine line between a magical creature and a monster. Spoiler alert: like 60% of the time, the difference is that monsters eat people. We'll talk about sea monsters, Sphinxes, and take an elongated look directly into the Canadian face of horror, the Wendigo.

In this video segment from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, learn about the daily prayer rituals of the Muslim faith and their significance in the life of a Muslim living in America.

In which Mike Rugnetta teaches you about the hero of The Congo, Mwindo! Mike will tell you the stories of Mwindo's birth, his many deaths, and his evolution from a braggy superhuman baby to a wise, superhuman leader of his people. Along the way, we'll learn about the Wiki game, and when you should and shouldn't drink banana beer.

This week, Mike Rugnetta is teaching you about mythical gardens and caves, which appear in cultures all over the world. Caves and gardens can stand for different things, but in the two stories we're talking about today, they tie into the creation of the world in general, and the origins of humans in particular.

Horses have been human companions for thousands of years, and have been essential companions and tools for the development of human culture. So, it makes sense that horses would make their way into our most important stories. Today, we're looking at horses in myth, and we'll talk about noble steeds from all over the world, including Svadlfari, Sleipneir, Pegasus, Qilin, Bucephalus, Al Baraq, and Unicorns! Let's get to the horsing around.