Esoterica

Religion For Breakfast

Let’s Talk Religion

Crash course https://youtube.com/@crashcourse recently did a series on religions and they also did a series on mythology. I think they did a good job of being open minded and nuanced.

Esoterica is fantastic. I'd also recommend Religion for Breakfast, Digital Hammurabi, and Useful Charts.

Not youtube, but check your local library for productions by The Great Courses/The Teaching Company.

They produce videos of actual college courses by professors from schools like Columbia, Harvard, etc.

There used to be one on multiple religions, it was very long (probably 40+ 30 min videos). They've since split it into separate courses on each religion.

It's really amazing, the professors are completely neutral (or perhaps sympathetic/understanding as to the circumstances that birthed each religion). They all approach it from an historical context to develop an understanding of each religion.

TGC also has a couple courses on Pagan beliefs, Nordic religions (for lack of a better word), etc.

I've collected about ten of the courses and ripped them to Mp4 and Mp3 so I can watch or listen as I want.

Not sure why so many people decided to downvote your question - it's good to want to understand human history and the paradigms that developed over time to bring us here today.

I gave you an upvote when you were zero, and someone has already downvoted that. Bunch of Luddites.

https://www.youtube.com/@TheEsotericaChannel/videos

Not all of it is about religion, but much of it is relevant.

Fall of Civilizations might interest you. It covers the collapse of past empires, and tries to describe what life was like for the people living in them when they were at their peak, and what we know of life during the decline.

It is not specifically focused on religions, but for most of these cultures their religion was inherently bound up with their politics (both internal and external), economics, industry, and day-to-day life. Describing the society and culture includes a fair amount of detail about their religious beliefs and practices (for instance, you can't really give a useful description of the Egyptian empire without mentioning their gods). Many of the largest surviving ruins have religious significance. Personally, I think framing the religion inside the sociocultural context and history of the civilization makes it more interesting and more understandable.

The Fall of Civilizations YouTube Channel has the podcast episodes set to video of the locations as they are today, along with photos of artifacts from the culture and artistic depictions of what it might have looked like.

Alex O'connor talks a ton about religion. I personally skip those episodes but I love the others so I assume these are as good as long as you find the topic interesting which I don't.

Rev left podcast is pretty good for that. But is decidedly political

I watch Genetically Modified Skeptic sometimes. Also, the Believe it Or Not channel/podcast