christianity

So I watch a video by ReligionForBreakfest talking about How Shinto can be the next Global religion and here's the link to the video Which I think could be useful for interesting alternate history scenarios. So this got me thinking. What if instead of the persecution of Christians during the...

Your challenge is to have the Ghana Empire go Christian and the Kingdom of Kongo go Muslim, rather than the other way around as OTL.

The vandal kingdom is a rather intriguing part of history to me. An Arian Christian state in north Africa, centered around Rome's old enemy city of Carthage, it met its end due to a loss to then-Christian Berbers that prompted a revolt against religious freedom being given to Trinitarians and...

Many in the early Christian Church viewed the crucifixion of Jesus on orders of Pontius Pilate as a sin collectively shared by the whole of the Roman Empire and its people; the subsequent treatment of Christians in the 1st century AD by the Roman authorities did not help improve their image in...

Background Info: Before the Muslim Conquest of Egypt (639-646) by the Rashidun Caliphate, the Copts made up the majority of Egypt since the 3rd century. After the conquest took place, the Arabs settled in Egypt bringing along the religion of Islam with them. The Copts faced persecution and...

With a POD after the crucifixion of Christ, come up with a scenario where Christianity has more or less the same geographic distribution as Islam does IOTL. Bonus points if you come up with a scenario where "Christendom" is roughly along the same geographic lines as OTL's Islamic World while...

https://www.christiantoday.com/article/when-north-koreas-capital-had-so-many-christians-it-was-called-the-jerusalem-of-the-east/107588.htm https://christianhistoryinstitute.org/magazine/article/the-jerusalem-of-the-east One of the North Korean Christians who fled south during the exodus was...

Christianity has been for centuries seen as one of the biggest religious blocks on the planet, this Is generally attributed to it’s obsession with achieving consensus with it’s great councils and the like. For those who follow another faith, the church is governed by the Council of five...

A few months back I posted a thread asking about the implications of Islam as a universal religion, so I figured that I would do the same for Christianity. Let us posit a scenario with a point of divergence very early in the 7th century which prevents Islam from getting off the ground...

Nestorian Christianity arrived to tibet as early as the 6th century, with Patriarch Timothy even considering to establish a Tibetan metropolitan. So, WI Christianity won over Buddhism for the hearts of the Tibetans? How will it affect the rest of Asia? Remember that Tibet influenced Mongolia...

Is it realistically possible for Christianity to become more mainstream and more common in North Africa and the Middle East again by the time of the modern era? What would have to happen for it to occur? Can a native Middle Eastern government pull it off on its own? Does this require European...

I have a challenge for you that may require a somewhat liberal approach to butterflies. The main focus in this one is Italy during the Migration Period but in a world where Christianity (and consequently Islam) never took hold. Let’s imagine that Christianity rises in the first-century as yet...

Otl, the Visogoths managed to repulse the Umaayads from Iberia, thus keeping it Christian. But what if they failed, and Iberia fell to invaders? Could a christian state emerge in the mountainous north, ala the Kingdom of Tangiers in northern Morocco? What would the ramifications be? Ooc: the...

Instead of having a vision of God, Paul has a seizure on the road and dies. What are the long-term consequences? The most immediate consequence is that Paul never preaches across the Roman Empire and becomes an author of Christian New Testament (CNT) texts. So the seven Pauline epistles that...

There is a currently-active thread asking a similar question about Islam, but I felt as though the topic could be broadened. To quote my post from that thread... Now, in hindsight, perhaps Tengrism was not a great example in this context, but my other points still stand. How come some...

How do you think European culture would have turned out like if most countries would have been successfully converted to Islam in the 16th and 17th century, following a successful Ottoman occupation? Modern Turkey seems to be a curious mixture of German and Middle Eastern culture. Outside of...

The caliphates spread from arabia to Spain to Pakistan, and the islamic faithspread farther, into india, central asia, subsaharan africa, and indonesia, converting people from native pagan faiths, Hinduism, buddhism, zoroastrianism, and christianity. My question is, why? I know about the tax on...

So for those who don’t know, Christianity was a minor cult that existed in the Levant in the late [1st century] and early [2nd century] before eventually being incorporated into a Roman mystery religion that existed mainly in the Levant and along the southern coast of the Anatolian peninsula up...

I was thinking about how the Philippines is the only Christian-majority nation in Asia. As well as how it contrasts to the number of Christian-majority nations in Africa today. With that in mind, what would it take for another Asian country to get a majority Christian population?

Judaism is not just a religion, but a cultural and ethnic identity. Technically Christianity is too, especially in Europe, but only informally. What if Christian Churches have actively incorporated this into their theologies and encouraged for the particular denomination of their brethren to...