religion

In the Warcraft Universe, the faith of the Human race was increasingly retconned into a more "spiritual but not theistic" leaning from Warcraft 1 onwards, eventually resulting in the religion of the Holy Light which is kinda like Unitarian Universalism mixed with Buddhism, but keeping the...

So let's imagine that for some reason both Christianity and Paganism die out in Early Medieval Europe, and a new religion, with some relation to Manichaeism and Gnosticism comes to be dominant in Europe after the 3rd Century CE. In this religion, there is a whole Priestly caste called the...

Europe united under the one true God I just watched the series knightfall, in this series the Pope in 1300 wants to unify Europe in a way that "there are no more kings, nobles and nations in Europe. Only the Pope leading Europe united under the one true God. '' I would like to know if there is...

A minor disclaimer: This is not valid for the United states or Ireland. On ireland for obvious reasons, and in the US because the USA has many strong christian denominations apart from the Anglican church, I'm not saying that the catholic church and the other non aglican protestant denominations...

In your opinion, do you think that it might have been plausible to have had a female Sikh Guru? Which POD (which can includie one of OTL's male Gurus being born as a female instead) might have had the greatest chance of bringing about this outcome- whose place would the female Guru take? And if...

B. R. Ambedkar was a Dalit (Untouchable) rights activist, who in the 1930s was convinced that Hinduism was not the right religion for Dalits and it was one of the main reasons Dalits were put in deplorable conditions. In 1935 he met with Christian, Muslim (Ambedkar would later speak out against...

And below is a map of original religions in different parts of the world (colours not in palette: Zamolxism in Balkans, Druidism in Britain and Spain, Kemetism in Egypt, Nabatean in NW Arabia, Semitic pagan in Yemen, Zuni in Afghanistan)

Makkah 14th of Januarius 10 A.P.R. ( Anno Post Revelationem ) A skeleton of man lay crumpled on the sands of the harsh Arabian desert still desperately clinging to life. The man's tormentors jeered at his pitiful state. One of them a man who was named Omar bent down as if to help the man up...

The PoD is the formation of the Rashidun caliphate, your objetive is to have part of eastern europe (you need at least Russia, belarus and eastern ukraine), most of siberia (Primorsk is not necessary) and Pakistan to be zoroastrian.

In OTL Rome adopted Christianity as its religion, however, is it possible that the Romans convert to another religion?

What if the great schism of 1054AD didn't happen? Though the two "grew apart" rather than a decision being made, how would the world have developed? What would it look like today? (Between the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Roman Catholic Church)

I have recently become fascinated with he sedevacantists, a bunch of Catholics who believe that Vatican II embraced heresy and that every Pope since then has been illegitimate. I have been listening to a Podcast (tradcast) of theirs and felt that if I was a Catholic some of their arguments would...

Here are some ideas I had: Bangabhumi: This is IOTL movement for Hindus in Bangladesh, and in 2003 some declared independence for the "Hindu Republic of Bangabhumi". If you manage to make it independent in your TL it might become the world's first Hindu Republic. Khalistan: A movement for a...

Let's say that some slavic pagan version of Plato rises in the mid 700s, and he creates a form of pagan renaissance in eastern europe and while this fails to prevent Poland, the balkans and the baltics from adopting christianity, a eastern slavic state covering Belarus, parts of Russia, ukraine...

Hello collective AH creators and admirers! I am creating my first ongoing AH timeline, and I will try to post regularly. The premise regards Mormonism and its effect on the development of the United States. ITT the POD is that Joseph Smith, prophet of the LDS Church, does not introduce polygamy...

There's this (possibly apocryphal) story I remember reading about as a child about how Gahndi in his youth went to a church to find out about spiritual answers, only to be turned away by a racist deacon and/or priest (sources vary). As such this made Gahndi a bit more critical and bitter towards...

During the French Revolution, among other things a state atheistic religion called the Cult of Reason was introduced. Its tenets included "the perfection of mankind through truth and liberty, and its guiding principle to this goal was the exercise of reason." The cult was brought down by...

So, how large can the orthodoxy get after 1054 in a best case scenario (without making it a wank, like having them to colonize america or something)

I'm not talking about Unitarian Universalism, but the more traditional Protestant religion developed in Transylvania in the 16th and 17th centuries. The main beliefs of Unitarians are: -God is the sole, indivisible creator and master of the Universe. He/she is perfect, omnipotent and...

Artists interpretation of Amakusa Shiro, leader of the Shimabara Rebellion. From Wikipedia The Shimabara Rebellion (島原の乱 Shimabara no ran) was an uprising in what is now Nagasaki Prefecture in southwestern Japan lasting from December 17, 1637, to April 15, 1638, during the Edo period. It...