Free Online Religion Courses

Get free Reli­gion cours­es online from the world’s lead­ing uni­ver­si­ties. You can down­load these audio & video cours­es straight to your com­put­er or mp3 play­er. For more online cours­es, vis­it our com­plete col­lec­tion of Free Cours­es.

• A Jour­ney through West­ern Chris­tian­i­ty: from Per­se­cut­ed Faith to Glob­al Reli­gion (200 — 1650) — Mas­sive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Yale Uni­ver­si­ty
• Ancient Israel — Free Online Video — Daniel Flem­ing, NYU
• Bud­dhism and Cog­ni­tive Sci­ence — Free Online Video — John Ver­vaeke, U Toron­to
• Bud­dhism and Mod­ern Psy­chol­o­gy — Free Online Video — Robert Wright, for­mer­ly Prince­ton
• Bud­dhism Through its Scrip­tures — Free Online Video — Charles Hal­lisey, Har­vard
• Bud­dhist Psy­chol­o­gy — Free Online Audio — Eleanor Rosch, UC Berke­ley
• Chris­tian­i­ty and Ethics — Free Online Video — Lynn Mitchell, U. of Hous­ton
• Chris­tian­i­ty Through Its Scrip­tures — Free Online Video — Karen L. King, Har­vard
• Faith and Glob­al­iza­tion — Free iTunes Video — Tony Blair, Miroslav Volf, Yale
• From Israelite to Jew — Free iTunes Audio, Michael Sat­low, Brown Uni­ver­si­ty
• Hin­duism Through Its Scrip­tures — Mas­sive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Har­vard
• His­tor­i­cal Jesus — Free iTunes Audio — Thomas Shee­han, Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty
• His­to­ry of Chris­t­ian Phi­los­o­phy - Free Online Video — Daniel Bonevac, UT Austin
• His­to­ry of Islam­ic Soci­ety — Free Online Video — Richard Bul­li­et, Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty
• His­to­ry and Nature of Apolo­get­ics — Free iTunes Audio — Cor­nelius Van­Til, West­min­ster The­o­log­i­cal Sem­i­nary
• Intro­duc­tion to the Old Tes­ta­ment (Hebrew Bible) — Free Online Course — Chris­tine Hayes, Yale.
• Intro­duc­tion to the Quran: The Scrip­ture of Islam — Mas­sive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Notre Dame, Gabriel Said Reynolds
• Intro­duc­tion to New Tes­ta­ment His­to­ry and Lit­er­a­ture — Free Online Course — Dale B. Mar­tin, Yale
• Intro­duc­tion to Reli­gion — Free Online Video — Lora Hobbs, Mis­souri State
• Islam Through Its Scrip­tures — Mas­sive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Har­vard
• Judaism Through Its Scrip­tures — Mas­sive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Har­vard
• Medieval Church — Free iTunes Audio — Carl True­man, West­min­ster The­o­log­i­cal Sem­i­nary
• Phi­los­o­phy of Reli­gion — Free Online Audio — T. J. Maw­son, Oxford
• Phi­los­o­phy, Sci­ence and Reli­gion: Sci­ence and Phi­los­o­phy — Mas­sive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Uni­ver­si­ty of Edin­burgh
• Reli­gious Lit­er­a­cy: Tra­di­tions and Scrip­tures — Mas­sive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Har­vard
• Sci­ence, Mag­ic and Reli­gion: From Antiq­ui­ty to Present — Free Online Video — Courte­nay Raia, UCLA
• Sci­ence & Reli­gion 101 — Mas­sive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Uni­ver­si­ty of Alber­ta
• Sci­ence vs. Reli­gion — Web Video — Mark Ver­non, Journalist/Philosopher
• The Bible and Eng­lish Lit­er­a­ture — Free Online Video (+ More Back­ground) — Northrop Frye, U. of Toron­to
• The Cen­tral Phi­los­o­phy of Tibet - Free Online Audio — Robert Thur­man, Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty
• The Hebrew Bible — Free Video — Shaye J.D. Cohen, Har­vard
• The Hebrew Scrip­tures in Judaism & Chris­tian­i­ty - Free Video — Shaye J.D. Cohen, Har­vard
• The Ref­or­ma­tion — Free Video - Carl True­man, West­min­ster The­o­log­i­cal Sem­i­nary
• Reli­gion, Con­flict and Peace — Mas­sive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Har­vard
• The Tal­mud: A Method­olog­i­cal Intro­duc­tion — Mas­sive Open Online Course (MOOC) — North­west­ern Uni­ver­si­ty
• The­ol­o­gy of Hebrews — Free iTunes Audio — R. Gafin, West­min­ster The­o­log­i­cal Sem­i­nary

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