Poll: Best religion for Medieval Lithuania to adopt

Best religion for Lithuania to adopt

  • Catholicism from Poland

    Votes: 36 18.9%
  • Catholicism from the Knights

    Votes: 15 7.9%
  • Orthodoxy

    Votes: 71 37.4%
  • Islam

    Votes: 24 12.6%
  • Judaism

    Votes: 15 7.9%
  • Remain pagan

    Votes: 28 14.7%
  • Other

    Votes: 1 0.5%

  • Total voters
    190
What about a reeeeaaaaally early Christianization, like within a few decades of Poland's conversion?
Christianization of Pagan Europe was mostly top-down: ruler baptized himself and enforced new religion on their subjects. So for early Christianization there is need of existence of a state, with ruler interested in converting and strong enough to enforce it.
 
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I like Jewish just because of what a crackpot decision that would be. It verges on ASB, but if it somehow happens then pretty much everything about Judaism is totally unrecognisable ITTL.
 
Adopting Protestantism kinda implies a previous Catholic period.

Otherwise what's there to protest about :p

EDIT: Lithuania being ignorant of Catholicism is impossible, so the direct conversion by protestant missionaries is very very unlikely.
 
Christianization of Pagan Europe was mostly top-down: ruler baptized himself and enforced new religion on their subjects. So for early Christianization there is need of existence of a state, with ruler interested in converting and strong enough to enforce it.
Were the chieftains of the area too powerless at the time?
 
What's "best" depends on what the elites of Lithuania want to achieve.

So we have Catholicism (as OTL), or:

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Were the chieftains of the area too powerless at the time?
Saint Bruno converted one Baltic (unsure whether Prussian, Lithuanian or other) duke to Christianity and we later never heard of him again, and Baltic religion a few hundreds later show no traces of Christian influence.

So yes.
 
Catholicism from the Teutonic knights is the technically correct answer, but my preferred Lithuania will always be Pagan.
 
Were the chieftains of the area too powerless at the time?

The chieftains are, by definition, numerous, quarreling with each other and not having power beyond their clan/tribe. If you are talking about conversion of a whole big country, a reasonably powerful supreme <whoever> makes things much easier. Especially if you keep in mind that he may claim that his country is baptized without getting into the trifles like some of the <entities> still being pagans. ;)
 
My mind is struggling to wrap around traditional Lithuanian naming patterns combined with Muslim names. It's interesting, but also...weird.
Maybe similiar like Muslim Serbo-Croatian names evolve ? If you are fluent in Baltic language and know Something about linguistic the developement of the languages, then maybe itbis possible to come up with some accurate naming patterns.
 
Has anyone suggested Bogomilism yet?
It would habe also hard stance with surrounding Catholic and Orthodox Christian neighbors ( who conider It a heresy) , but maybe it becomes sort of Bogomill Bosnia until Tartars arrive. Maybe Tartar's Islam gains influence among Lithunia's Bogomills
 
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