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What if Evangelicalism (also known as Evangelical Christianity or Evangelical Protestantism) had never existed? How might things have been altered by its absence?

The Qarmatians were a branch of Sevener Isma'ilism that incorporated elements of Zoroastrianism. After they took power over Bahrain and much of Eastern Arabia in the Qarmatian Revolution, they held onto it for much of a century and were a constant thorn in the Abbasid Caliphate's side, even...

Contrary to popular belief, there's nothing inherently against proselytization in Judaism. Once upon a time, Jews did proselytize. So what happened? Negative legal consequences - up to and including mass executions - as punishment for trying to spread Judaism. Christian and Muslim empires...

The Babylonian captivity (also known as the Babylonian exile) was one of the defining periods in Jewish history. While archaeological evidence indicates that not all Judeans were deported, the Babylonian captivity was nevertheless an event that caused permanent changes to the Jewish people as a...

IIRC, Vladimir the Great thought about converting to Islam at one point IOTL. What if he did?

After Sogdia was conquered by the Muslims, numerous Sogdian refugees came to the Uyghur Khaganate. There, they converted the Uyghur nobility to Manichaeism, and Manichaeism became the Khaganate's state religion. What if the Uyghurs had stayed Manichaean?

What if the Ghana Empire didn't convert to Islam? How might that have affected things?

What if the Kingdom of Kongo hadn't converted to Christianity? How might it affect things?

I think it's interesting to speculate about different polities and/or peoples ending up adopting different religions than IOTL, and what might happen if they did. Maybe the Ghana Empire converts to Christianity, or maybe the Kingdom of Kongo converts to Islam. Do you have any thoughts about...

The witch-cult hypothesis was a theory that the witch trials in Europe were at least partly an attempt to suppress a pre-Christian pagan religion. This theory is often credited to Margaret Murray, but while she did play a major role in popularizing it, it was actually proposed in the early...