alternate religion

I don't mean actual magic or anything, I mean, how, if possible, could Satanism (defined here simply as the worship of Satan/Lucifer) have taken hold in the past? It would presumably have to be medieval or later for something like this to happen. And by major Abrahamic faith, I mean a dominant...

Prologue: First Contact So it was that Bjarne Herjulfson came to Greenland, and Jarl Érik received him well. And Bjarne spoke of lands he had seen, further to the west, but could not tell further stories, and so people gave his words no heed, and he was wroth. But Leif, son of Érik, was struck...

Good folks, I genuinely hope I'm not causing trouble. I'm going to try and rework my old Kingawa timeline, cutting away the bits involving a major shift in Eurasian history (the Glass Empire of Rome ruled by Emperor Christ being the main one) and focusing on making North America into something...

So I watch a video by ReligionForBreakfest talking about How Shinto can be the next Global religion and here's the link to the video So this gave me an idea. What if in this POD the new shogunate doesn't become anti-Christain and instead decided to assimilate it into Shinto. Now, this has...

So I watch a video by ReligionForBreakfest talking about How Shinto can be the next Global religion and here's the link to the video Which I think could be useful for interesting alternate history scenarios. So this got me thinking. What if instead of the persecution of Christians during the...

Britain is rather officially Anglican (though with religious tolerance enshrined into law), and i've seen people occasionally create timelines and scenarios whereas Britain stays in the Catholic fold from the 16th century on in, or breaks with "crown religion" altogether under a surviving...

This thread is a hypothetical alternate religion thread. The point of the thread is to speculate what would an Asian-American religion look like in an alternate timeline. The Point of Divergence begins when the ban on slavery of Africans and Native Americans cause Iberian along with Dutch...

Considering how far Manichaeism reached IOTL, with adherents living in places as far apart as Roman Gaul and China, I was wondering how Manichaeism could possibly reach Japan and how it would then develop on the islands. A few specific questions: If Manichaeism reaches Japan, how influential...

After the defeat of the Ostrogoths at the Battle of Mons Lactarius, a number of the Ostrogoths went back north and resettled in Austria. Some of them would participate in the later Lombard invasion. Arian Christianity was allegedly introduced to the Goths in the first place by a singular priest...

All righty, so in prepartions for a timeline project I might do here, I am wondering, what would be some alternate religions that could unite Arabia if Islam wasn't around? Also, for various reasons, Christianity is not a big factor here. The Roman Empire is not Christian here so basically alot...

The Dacians had one of the most advanced religions compared to their polytheistic neighbors, including the Romans. The Dacians primarily worshipped the Thracian quasi-god Zalmoxis with a mix of Celtic and Germanic influences. How could the Dacian Cult of Zalmoxis have developed into organized...

What are possible areas that Islam could have spread to? Im not looking for losing the battle of Tours, i mean when Islam first became a thing, what is the likelihood of it spreading into modern day Russia? Would surrounding tribes convert as well? What about going deeper into India? What...

This timeline is a rewrite and expansion of In the Shade of the Baobabs, my first timeline. It explores the possible consequences of a world where Hannibal wins the Second Punic War and Carthage maintains its dominance in the Western Mediterranean. It focuses mostly on Africa while...

The Abridged History of Al-Habashah: From Axum to Abyssinia By Taym Ansary (Author of Such Books as "Destiny Delivered" and "Kabul East and West" "I remember my trip to Gandar quite well, stopping in the area to meet with an old friend of mine who had persued his life in the path of being an...