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[–] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

I might be in a niche. Here's my fav, Religion for Breakfast, Let's Talk Religion, Esoterica, Al-Muqaddimah, Tablets and Temples, Useful Charts. Not religious but I like Religious Studies because it's overlaps to history.

In addition, the Crash Course series to Religious Studies by PBS is also very good.

Also few history channel, Dan Davis History, A Historian's Craft, Kings and Generals

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I always liked how religious studies overlaps philosophy and mythology. Whether someone is religious or not, there’s been an awful lot of thinking about ethics, morality, and thinking, that may be generally interesting. Also, seeing trends and commonality across mythologies, seeking understanding across mythologies may apply regardless whether you’re religious

[–] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 16 hours ago

Oh very true, I forgot about it. It's definitely very related to philosophy & mythology a lot. I personally never been so interested with that aspect hence I forgot. But it does pique my interest quite often enough when watching such videos. I often noticed even much later religious communities developed their philosophy based on more ancient philosophy foundation, which neoplatonism is one of such idea that I hear a lot. And so about how a lot of abrahamic religion are adopting/build their system based on or against various ancient mesopotamian myths, culture, and systems.

But I personally have been more interested to the history & evolvement aspect of things, like how the Bible differs in various times in different locations. How early Christian & Muslim had their sort of "figuring out" eras during their early times respectively. Or how does Judaism evolved from Canaanite theology, from a pantheon to henotheism, to eventually become monotheism.

This also overlaps to linguistic as well sometimes, used for example to describe various Indo-European gods appear in various culture are related linguistically. Although, I don't really follow any linguistic channels since they really are (well, obviously) about linguistic, not religious studies or history focused.