Religion with No World Wars or Revolutions?

CECBC

Banned
Hi! For my first post I have decided to ask a question about what path the world's many religions would take if events like WWI, the Xinhai revolution, Russian revolution(s), 1910 Portuguese revolution and others never happened.

I'm particularly interested in what religion in China and the Russian Empire would be like, since Communism in real life really affected them. Would a more peaceful and stable world make people more religious? Would religious institutions be more "set in their ways" and traditional without the big shakeups from world wars and revolutions?
 

NoMommsen

Donor
I would say the religions wouldn't have performed much different as in OTL, in terms of influence on the society. They were already declining. You can take the revolutions as a sign of it.

In the communist or ex-communist world they might be more widespread in terms of their institutions but with as much influence as of today lets say in ... germany :D -> none to speak of.
 
disagree- the Church of England at least was largely killed on the Western Front. It had no answers, couldn't explain why these terrible things were happening, had no spiritual comfort to give, with a few honourable individual exceptions lived closer to the often- hated staff than Tommy in the mud, and in general let itself down so badly that the lip service it receives today is all it deserves.

On the other side of the lines, much the same story- religion as the if you like moral arm of the state if not exactly killed off immediately then fatally weakened.
 
Without WW1 Ottoman Empire might survive or leastly probably not colonisation by France and United Kingdom nor Israel.

So probably there wouldn't be so big radical Islam problem and we might see more secular Islam.
 
Without WW1 Ottoman Empire might survive or leastly probably not colonisation by France and United Kingdom nor Israel.

So probably there wouldn't be so big radical Islam problem and we might see more secular Islam.

The Ottoman Empire was pretty progressive on some issues. I once read that it legalized homosexuality sometime around the mid 19th century.

It would be interesting to see the current interpretation of Islam in an Ottoman-dominated Middle East.
 
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