religion

Even though America is very religious countries with Protestant and Christianity (Even though it wasn't founded official under it officially) it is pretty interesting that a "Church of America" has never come to existence. The closest we probably have gotten to our timeline was the United Church...

What if it was a major branch of Islam like Shia and Sunni Islam? is this even realistic? How could this have affected history, culture, demographics, languages, international relations, politics, religious matters, art, etc? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quranism

[CHALLENGE] If Adoptionism became the Creed of Mainstream Christianity never becoming a heresy; then how would this have affected history, theology, cultures, politics, international relations, etc? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoptionism Would there be less of a cultural divide between Islam...

Christianity has an immaterial, omniscient and omnipresent god who, with the advancement of science and our knowledge of the universe, can hide in that which we still do not know. What was there before the Big Bang? God What started the universe? God etc... However, The Sol invictus is the...

The Bulgarian national revival (link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_National_Revival) in the 18th - 19th centuries was more directed against the Greek cultural and spiritual influence, exerted in this number also through the church, than against the Ottoman conquerors - for example, the...

The codification of the New Testament was a process that took three centuries and during which the inclusion or exclusion of multiple books was debated and even today there is controversy about some of the books in it, so I would like to ask if you could choose the books that were accepted and...

Okay, hear me out. Topics such as 'What if [Major Religion] didn't exist?' or 'What if [Region] followed [Different Religion]?, What if [Religion] was Bigger' etc are very common in alternative history circles. These scenarios can drastically alter a given timeline, sometimes creating an almost...

So I've been reading about the history of Christianity in East Asia and I've been thinking, what if the Nestorian Christians were able to create a lasting community in China? It is not necessary that they convert all of China to Christianity, simply that they become an "ethnicity"* like the Hui...

Your challenge is to have a British or English monarch convert to Puritanism, and preferably make it the state religion... Looking forward to your ideas!

I was reading about these extinct Shia sects, could any of them have survived or grown as larger movements? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extinct_Shia_sects

As one of the mainline churches in the US the Methodist church has been influential throughout America's history. What if this mainline church became the majority denomination of the US? It doesn't have the official state religion but come up with a timeline that sees the Methodist Church as the...

One of the most important figures in Christianity is considered the Apostle Paul, formerly known as Saul of Tarsus. In roughly 31 - 36 AD (the date is not exactly know), Saul apparently experienced what he described as a transformative experience and conversion on the road to the city of...

Your challenge is to create a 4th major Abrahamic religion, with at least as many adherants as Judaism. You can uplift a group like the Druze, or take an extinct movement and wank them, or push a fringe denomination into becoming its own religion - regardless of your method, there needs to be...

-Prologue- A painting showing the fabled fight between Archangel Michael & the Garrods of the East “Verily, The Winged Beasts of the East confronted Michael in the skies above Jerusalem. Michael confronted the Garrod [1] of the East, accusing them of wickedness as the descendants of the foul...

Okay so just so we're all on the same line: I'm nearly dead-set on making an Ottowank timeline where Italy is in Ottoman hands, and a majority of Italians are converted to Islam. If you believe that this is implausible, that's okay :) but I'm not here to ask second thoughts on the plausibility...

The Cult of Isis and the Cult of Mithras were popular alternatives to Christianity in the Roman Empire. What if these two popular cults combined or a completely new cult formed in the worship of the God and Goddess?

Before I get into the details of the question, let me set out the scenario. At some point in the 3rd Century, Persia converts to Christianity in a "Light shines East" style scenario, where Christianity is largely merged with Zoroastrianism and Ahura Mazda is conflated with the Christian God. The...

Manichaeism was a founded in third century Iraq and was influenced by Zoroastrianism, Buddhism and Gnostic Christianity. From the it had spread throughout the old world. The Manichean Prophet Mani was born to a sect of Gnostic Christians called the Elcesaites. This, however, makes me wonder what...

Exactly what the title is asking. How would the Greeks have interpreted the major deities of Hinduism? For example, Shiva, Vishnu, Brahma, Shaktii ans let's just add in Surya Ganesha and Kartikeya for the sake of conversation. Would they have been conflated with one of the Greek gods or would...

It is common whenever pagan and Abrahamic religions are discussed to say that because the Abrahamic religions are "axial" they have a natural advantage. When I looked at a paper about the subject, though, it mentioned that the guy who invented the term was very vague about what axiality entailed...