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.

Earlier Bahaism ?

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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

Challenge: Jainist India

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A now-extinct syncretic faith founded by a New Zealand Maori man in the 19th century.

Hauhauism PODs

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Challenge: Manichaeism takes the role of Christianity

WI: Islam vs. Manichaeism ?

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

Muhammad is a Zoroastrian

Challenge: Zoroastrian Russia

Surviving dominant Zoroastrianism without a surviving Persia

Would Zoroastrianism or Nestorianism be more or less conservative than Islam ?

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