Its been 5 years since i have left my faith and i am at a place where i would like to learn about religion as whole, in secular sense.Not looking for anti-theist discussions.

I wouldn't mind if the creator is religious themself as long as they are nice and don't push their views on the viewer.

I am interested in religious themes, history, mythology, spiritually in general and don't mind long videos. I don't have specific religions in mind, rather i would like an array of perspectives. That said, don't worry if the creator you want to recommend me focus on only one religion or just the Abrahamic religions in general, i am open to any perspectives.

I do have a pile of saved articles and books on religions i want to read eventually, but its been difficult for me to start, so i wanted to try a more passive medium.

Feel free to recommend me podcasts if you.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Esoterica

Religion For Breakfast

Let’s Talk Religion

Strong agree on those three

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.

This looks awesome!

Gotta say, the look of the channel is off putting

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

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.

I wouldn't recommend Mike Heiser. The dude was an evangelical through and through and not only that most of his views were fringe to evangelicalism, his work is apologetics for his idiosyncratic views.

But Religion for Breakfast is good.

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