religion

How do you get Christianity or Islam to make up 50% or more of the world's population?

Posting this here as an Atheist becoming US president is more interesting before 1900 than in after. Anyways, with a POD no earlier than July 4th, 1776, how can an atheist become US president?

How could there have been a religion with a single goddess, that is, a monotheistic religion that genders their deity as female instead of male? Depending on how we bring such a religion about, and that it does very well for itself (in the given context), what would it look like? (As for when...

What if monotheistic religions don't see other religions as heretic, and instead saw each other as aspects of their own respective Gods, like the ancient cultures viewed other cultures' religions? Would we see different religions forming something akin to Creole religions?

I am not exactly familiar with the religious history of Sweden so with a POD of around 1500s, what is the most tactical plan for Sweden to stay within the Catholic church ? How would Sweden and the Swedish king stay within the Catholic fold ?

Who are the Druze https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druze https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_community#Religious_and_cultural_communities Since the 11th century, the Druze have been a closed community. Members of the Druze can only marry within the religion. Druze does not accept converts Does...

First of all, I don't want to start a discussion about what you don't beleive or not, so please no fighting. Christian, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and all the other major religions had adapted to a certain point to the advancement of science, you can be a christian or a muslim or a hindu...

Point of Divergence ... When Jesus was captured by Roman soldiers and brought before Pontius Pilate, Pilate did not want to have Jesus charged as a criminal. His spouse Claudia, according to the Gospel of Matthew, had told Pilate she had a dream and that she believed Jesus to be innocent. In...

The challenge is to have a situation where one religion is dominant over the whole world. There can be different sects, but no more different than the differences between the sects of Christianity or Islam. The religion doesn't need to have literally every person as an adherent, and there can be...

I'm not sure if the thread title is self-explanatory, so here goes my question: how well did Islam integrate with Asian (western, southern and eastern) religions. I'm aware about Akbar the Great's proposed syncretism between Islam and Hinduism, but that's an "up-down" and arguably artificial...

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?