AH Challenge: Different Major Religions

Ok, ok, Satanism is not very popular:(. What about Egyptian polytheism?

Some say that monotheism traces its roots from there (something to do with Akhenaton, if I am not mistaken...).

And what about Native American religions?
 
Challenge: Make Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Nestorian Christianity most popular world religions.

Making Zoroastrianism, Nestorian Christianity and Buddhism major religions isn't too hard; butterflying Islam away and Zoroastrianism and Nestorianism are bound to remain major religions, and Buddhism already managed to remain a major religion IOTL.

Making Jainism a major religion will be rather tricky, though...

...and making sure that these religions eclipse Hinduism and the non-Nestorian forms of Christianity will be pretty hard...

If the Khazars, Volga Bulgarians, or another Turkic people in eastern Europe becomes Nestorian, then it shouldn't be too hard to get a Nestorian Russia - but that's about as far as Nestorianism could realistically expand into Europe, even in a best-case scenario.
 

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Nestorianism would not be hard. One idea would be to have Kuchlug of the Naiman lead the Mongols on their Inevitable Rampage of Doom (TM). He made entire cities convert to Nestorianism (or Buddhism), or they would be slaughtered and enslaved. It would be bloody, but China, Central Asia, and maybe Persia would be Nestorian and more ethnically Mongol. This scenario might work for Buddhism too, as cities were given the choice between Nestorianism and Buddhism.

A bit too late for Zoroastrianism though, perhaps it goes through a Persian nationalistic revival after the Mongol Gur-khanate collapses?
 
Fine, also add Aztec/Inca beliefs (whatever you call that), Iroquois/Northeastern Native American beliefs (whatever you call that), Egyptian polytheism, and lastly Celtic Christianity. :D
 
Buddhism, hrm. You could make it more popular in East Asia; I don't know at what point it becomes "the faith" of China, for instance, but if it is more prominent that alone would make it more popular.
 
Well, here is a quick map I did up of a possible outcome with all these religions.

Key:
Peach-Buddhism
Orange-Nestorian Christianity
Light Blue-Celtic Christianity
Purple-Zoroastrianism
Teal-Aztec/Inca
Green-Native American
Yellow-Egyptian Polytheism
Black-Tribal/Other/Unknown

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Well, here is a quick map I did up of a possible outcome with all these religions.

Key:
Peach-Buddhism
Orange-Nestorian Christianity
Light Blue-Celtic Christianity
Purple-Zoroastrianism
Teal-Aztec/Inca
Green-Native American
Yellow-Egyptian Polytheism
Black-Tribal/Other/Unknown

I think that Zoroastrianism is impossible in Florida area and Buddhism in California area could be possible if Chinese had reached Western Hemisphere.
 
Fine map...:cool:

Now you should draw the political one that goes with it.

As far as religion is concerned, I was thinking about astrology. Astrology tells you what you should do with your life and pretends to explain everything. Besides the planets bear the names of ancient gods. It is a bit like Scientology in that it places emphasis on personal development, and tells you things about your character that you were previously unaware of. Could you add astrology or scientology, please, vtmarxist...

When I was younger, I knew a girl who was into astrology, and she was pretty religious about it...
 
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Fine, also add Aztec/Inca beliefs (whatever you call that), Iroquois/Northeastern Native American beliefs (whatever you call that), Egyptian polytheism, and lastly Celtic Christianity. :D


Aztec religion = Teotl
Inca religion = Inti maybe?
Northeast Native = Longhouse Religion

But as will almost all polytheistic / pagan religions, there is no one standard religion. There was not a standard Egyptian paganism, the same goes for all of the other ones. Without outside intervention, the religious are not going to standardize.
 
well it is possible that because of outside influences in order to survive they might become more organized:D:D

But there are no outside influences that could threaten them. Since Christianity seems to have stopped and left most of the religion alone, they would not feel threatened enough to standardize. After all (IIRC) the native American did not standardize in OTL even after centuries of contact with semi-hostile colonists.
 
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