religious

What if, during the 1500s and 1600s, during the Protestant Reformation, various groups of protestants form brotherhoods, equivalent to the religious Military Orders, like the Templars and Teutonic Knights, to protect other protestants from violent Catholic reprisals and crackdowns?

Okay, so, so far this map doesn't have a timeline attached to it, but I'm working to fix that. It's called "Orthodox Germany" because the original idea of the TL was "what if Germany was Orthodox". After that, I just sort of ran with it and made a map. Sorry for the border gore, especially in...

A while back I had the idea to start up a spreadsheet/add on to my EU4 modding spreadsheet with colors associated with different religions and languages/cultures. It was only today when I thought "Hey, those guys at althis.com would enjoy this" Also, personal progress has lagged a bit since as...

The Religious map was done almost completely by me (though not completed, lacking Volga Federal District, most of China, Subsaharan Africa and South America. As @Redcoat was asking, is there support for such a project like this one? The basic resources : The Universal Religious Colour Scheme...

This is one of the most unplausible threads I have ever created, but I still think that with the right PoD, most likely a "great man PoD" this still can be realized, basically a germanic pagan "reconquista" of northern europe This is a religious map of europe and north africa around the early...

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)

What would be the repercussions if Hungary, Poland and the baltics had converted to Orthodoxy? Since there are so many PoDs, let's leave a vague description that the Magyars onverted under Byzantine influence and later the Poles, and at the time of some alternate version of the northern...

I'm trying to create an alternate religion in which Carthage wipes away the old gods and instead forms a Ba'al Hammon (Lord Hammon) Monotheism, or Hammonism. As much as I try to find information on Ba'al Hammon it's shrouded in so much Roman propaganda. So, I'd like to ask some people who know...

How do you think would it be possible to have a Theocracy in present-day Europe that is about as strictly Christian as present-day OTL Iran is Islamic? -Obviously it wouldn't be Democratic, so it wouldn't be a member of the EU. -It would be strongly Patriarchal and discriminatory towards...