Reformed Faiths

Are there any TLs or books that document an alternate history religion? Druidism, Hellenic, Nestorism, Nordic, Finnic, Slavic, African for example.

Are there any resources about the reasons as to why these religions failed to survive while Islam and Christianity prospered?
 
I don't have any resources in particular but I will speak to traditional African beliefs. The majority still exists in one way or another but are not as dominant and much like in the caribbean there's a good amount of syncretism.
 
Because the rich parts of Europe were going Christian, and going Christian yourself meant you had more ins through which to trade with them.

Same goes for the fringes of Islam: More than a few conversions started with the merchant class, because being Muslim gave you better access to deals from Muslim merchants from abroad.
 
To Ourselves, To New Paganism by @Practical Lobster is a great timeline that speculated on the other ways that Greco-Hellenic religion could have evolved without Christianity.

Malê Rising
by @Jonathan Edelstein also features a large number of alternate sects, evolutions and syncretisms that emerge out of Islam, Christianity and various indigenous religions. Although I must warn you it's a very long timeline.

Empty Earth has a couple of divergent sects that split off from Christianity due to Mongol related reasons as well as surviving Albigensianism and Norse Paganism.
 
Because the rich parts of Europe were going Christian, and going Christian yourself meant you had more ins through which to trade with them.

Same goes for the fringes of Islam: More than a few conversions started with the merchant class, because being Muslim gave you better access to deals from Muslim merchants from abroad.
Also less likely to be invaded by them. Also gives you the opportunity to call on them for support when waging war on your now heathen neighbours.
 
I'm reminded very much of EU4 and Crusader Kings II with this...

I do figure that alot of the pagan religions could be reformed if the nations that held them got the religious leaders to band together and write an official text before distributing said text by mass
 
I'm reminded very much of EU4 and Crusader Kings II with this...

I do figure that alot of the pagan religions could be reformed if the nations that held them got the religious leaders to band together and write an official text before distributing said text by mass
Before converting to Christianity Vladimir the Great was reforming and restructuring the religion of the Rus' into a more centralised system.

The history of Sassanid era Persia also provides a model for the restructuring and reforming of a disorganised religion into a centralised and codified state church. At several points during the reign of the Sassanid dynasty they had what where essentially ecumenical councils that ruled on what would be considered orthodox and where various texts were added or removed from the official holy book.

Finally Judaism offers several models of reformation. First in its gradual transformation from a polytheistic into a monotheistic religion and then from its transformation from a Temple based cult into its (incredibly relatively) modern Rabbinical and Karaite incarnations.
 
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