Alternate large-scale religious conversions

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 alternate large-scale religious conversions you'd like to share?
 

jocay

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I always wondered what it would be like if the Ottomans had embraced Alevi Islam early on instead of the more orthodox Sunni Islam. Perhaps if a greater number of Alevis escape Mongol pillage and destruction and find sanctuary under the early Ottoman rulers. Would there had been a greater conversion of Balkan Christians under these alt-Ottomans?
 
The Sikh khalsa manages to repel the invasions of the British East India Company, and the Sikh Empire survives, overseeing a transition of most of the Indus Valley to its state faith.
 
The Sikh khalsa manages to repel the invasions of the British East India Company, and the Sikh Empire survives, overseeing a transition of most of the Indus Valley to its state faith.

That'd be kind of hard to do, but it'd be doable for Sikhism to become the ethnic religion of the Punjabi people, in the empire's core.

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Another weird and borderline ASB setup would be a majority Jain state somewhere in the world, maybe in one of those places where people from the subcontinent ended up in OTL, like Mauritius or Guyana, except for some reason most of the diaspora would be Jain here rather than Hindu.
 
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