WI Major World Religion founded after Islam?
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The Mongols in general had a pretty laissez-faire attitude toward religion... they didn't tend to care what God you worshipped as long as a) you didn't fight back and b) you paid your tribute on time, and lots of it.
Nestorianism would also have an uphill battle, being not only a non-Chalcedonian Church but a non-Ephesian Church as well, thus being heretical to pretty much all of the rest of Christendom...
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If we look at the list, the easiest way would be to make Protestants seen as none Christians-which is highly unlikely/borderline ASB-or make Sikhs more prevalent (although the Indian subcontinent already has at least three other major religions- or, um, some big Mormon-wank. Baha'i would be difficult to wank because essentially they believe everyone-is-right. This makes it difficult, because why convert away from your native religion when this new faith tells you your right? You could do it no matter what after Islam was founded, but in a recognizable world it is very hard to do.
Like the idea of ATL Sikhism making gains in Sindh, Baluchistan (possibly including Iranian Baluchistan if we are referring to the region in general as opposed to Afghan and Pakistani parts of Baluchistan?) and Afghanistan as well as possible gains in parts of East Africa (and less likely Southeast Asia), just that have seen previous threads dismiss the idea of a wanked Sikhism taking hold beyond the Punjab region and possibly parts of Sindh.
It’s unlikely, but people would convert over time for a variety of reasons and would grow from there
Maybe a Native American/ South American organized religion taking elements from Christianity and traditional belief systems.
Or an Pan African faith popular enough to stop Abrahamic religions to spread.
There are a lot of native american and afro-american beliefs in South and Central America that took elements from christianity. In Brazil you have Umbanda as an example.
these types of religion never were too popular because Spain and Portugal always strengthened catholicism in their colonies.
A successful Taiping Rebellion would lead to something becoming a major world religion.
Interesting choice, but a bit hard to replicate the situation with Jesus for Haile Selassie. His rule over Ethiopia depends on his support for the Oriental Orthodox Church, so he's not likely to give that up.
If Musaylimah the liar or any one of the other false "prophets" can defeat the Rashidun forces and win the Ridda Wars, then there might be a possibilty for another religion to arise from there.
Not sure about that... Taiping was so idiosyncratic and so personality-cult driven (yeah, I know, like that makes it exceptional as far as religions go
) that it's hard to imagine it surviving for long after the Little Brother of Christ had passed on... it would be like Jim Jones's People's Temple surviving, just on a much larger scale...This reminds me of a conversation from a thread a few years back (iirc).
The basic premise was that the Nag Hamaddi Library gets discovered way earlier than OTL, leading to a Gnostic revival. By choosing select doctrines, anti-semites have what they always wanted in a non-jewish Christianity to the point of “Gnozis” forming.
Tbh, I don’t see that getting much traction. Whilst there has always been a lot of debate over what Siddartha taught, Navayana isn’t really that close to any seriously considered scholarship on the subject.At the risk of going a bit off-topic and post-1900 - well, you'd think that about India, but here's a rather new one (or a new take on a very old one at least) that looks pretty promising:
Navayana - Wikipedia
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Mormonism is super limited in it’s potential to spread tbh. Between genetics, Archaeology and the whole Book of Abraham debacle (which debunks the entire faith on its own without considering the former two), the Mormon faith really benefits from being obscure.
Understand, all the better if it manages to become a majority in most of Punjab, Sindh, Baluchistan and other parts of Afghanistan.
A wanked Mutazilite derivative could work.
Also like the notion of one or a few Post-Islam sects becoming popular, basically think something like early Baha'i (or an Islamic analogue of Mandaeism / Manicheanism) with a Sikh / Gurkha like warrior culture, Omani/Sikh-like Empire and possibly even a Mongol-like fearsome reputation.
It would become the majority in the Punjab while it will take a while longer in other places though the various zeitgeists would make it likely to change, especially with the decline of Muslim nations and the past grievances perhaps convincing newer generations to embrace Sikhism over time.
And for the Africa thing, it'd be done faster given how it would be seen as a liberating force against slavery and probably flexible enough to incorporate the local culture into it without too much trouble or worry on it. It would probably spread into further the center of Africa albeit with even more syncretism. I don't see it doing more elsewhere unless this Sikh Empire somehow gets more offshore presence. Maybe they beat the Dutch to claiming Papua New Guinea, but that's just an odd longshot (still possible) and that could lead it to spreading across Nusantara.
Beyond that, it's more difficult to say unless the Sikh Empire expands northward to Central Asia (unlikely though the influence could still be there, especially if the Khanates or former Emirates come to rely on them)
Maybe have a big polythesing faith appearing in Africa. Something akin to the Serer religion in West Africa (actually a ethnic relogion) or another one. African regions had a rich history of their own complex faiths and cosmology.
Or have a religion early on spread in South and Middle America combining Catholic elements and aboriginal beliefs into a new religions with a widespread followership.