7 documentaries about Religion to watch on Netflix or Prime

Naiara Leão
4 min readFeb 25, 2022

From sketchy cults to understanding Islamic diversity, religious imperialism, and non-Western ancient knowledge. With trailers.

Scene of Wild Wild Country on Nextflix

Holly Hell

Sometimes we hear about some sketchy cult and wonder how did anyone fall for that. This documentary explains exactly how by showing the process of a group of young, smart and good-looking…

Naiara Leão

Nomad. PhD student of Religion, early Christianity and Women's and Gender Studies. Follow my IG @academicanomad