PODs about various other religions from all around the world, usually smaller in size (number of worshippers) or already extinct in the present.
Challenge: Biggest religion (by numbers) has no gods
Plausibility check: Major world religion founded after Islam
Challenge: Have a major world religion develop in the Americas
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Baha'i is the youngest world religion. It is rooted in both Abrahamic monotheism and the dharmic meta religion.
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A modern religious movement founded in Vietnam in the 1920s.
Plausibility check: Caodaiist-wank ?
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Sikhism has a complicated history and its own unique trappings, blending Islam and dharmic religions, such as Hinduism.
Plausibility check: Sikh Majority India ?
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Make Jainism as influential as Buddhism in the West
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A now-extinct syncretic faith founded by a New Zealand Maori man in the 19th century.
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Challenge: Manichaeism takes the role of Christianity
Why was manichaeism persecuted so much ?
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Plausibility check: Emperor Constantine unites the empire under Mithraism ?
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Abrahamic religions other than Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Challenge: Fourth great Abrahamic Religion
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Challenge/Plausibility check: Subsaharan religion widely practiced throughout the Mediterranean
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The traditional Persian religious faith, founded a few centuries BC by Persian scholar and mystic Zarathustra/Zoroaster.
Island of Fire: Zoroastrian Zanzibar
Surviving dominant Zoroastrianism without a surviving Persia
Would Zoroastrianism or Nestorianism be more or less conservative than Islam ?
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Religious Points of Divergence
Points of Divergence concerning Christianity
Points of Divergence concerning Islam
Points of Divergence concerning Judaism and Jews
Points of Divergence concerning Buddhism
Points of Divergence concerning Hinduism
Points of Divergence concerning indigenous religions