joncnunn in the New Civs thread gave me the idea of discussing which religions ought to be in Civ4. Here is what I'm thinking based on this from Locutus's update thread:
"Religion will spread through your lands and offer myriad tools to control your people more effectively and keep them happier. At some point you’ll even be able to create Great Prophets to act as immortal icons to the devout. Early screenshots (see below) seem to indicate that the religion of a city will be visible on the main map."
Indigenous or Pagan -- maybe all Civs start off as one of the two?
Christianity - possibly split up into Catholicism and Protestantism.. maybe Orthodox as well
Judaism
Islam - I'm not familiar with all the different sects
Hinduism
Janism
Buddhism
Confucianism
Taoism
Shinto
I'm not sure how worthy it is for Taoism or a religion like Janism to be included, though. The best idea is probably not to split up major religions, like Christianity, into sub-religions, and also, only including the VERY MAJOR religions to not over do it. In that case indigenous and/or pagan, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Shinto.
Although, maybe specific religions won't be used at all and instead religious terms. Pagan, atheism, polytheism, monotheism, agnostic, pantheism, etc...
Has there been any other speculation on this already?
"Religion will spread through your lands and offer myriad tools to control your people more effectively and keep them happier. At some point you’ll even be able to create Great Prophets to act as immortal icons to the devout. Early screenshots (see below) seem to indicate that the religion of a city will be visible on the main map."
Indigenous or Pagan -- maybe all Civs start off as one of the two?
Christianity - possibly split up into Catholicism and Protestantism.. maybe Orthodox as well
Judaism
Islam - I'm not familiar with all the different sects
Hinduism
Janism
Buddhism
Confucianism
Taoism
Shinto
I'm not sure how worthy it is for Taoism or a religion like Janism to be included, though. The best idea is probably not to split up major religions, like Christianity, into sub-religions, and also, only including the VERY MAJOR religions to not over do it. In that case indigenous and/or pagan, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Shinto.
Although, maybe specific religions won't be used at all and instead religious terms. Pagan, atheism, polytheism, monotheism, agnostic, pantheism, etc...
Has there been any other speculation on this already?
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