Belief System

31 maps · 31 audio guides

The geography of belief.

Explore the places behind thirty-one histories of religion. Follow a narrated map, read the evidence, and move from ancient sites to the places where their records survive.

Choose a book, then press play for a short narrated tour. Every map also has a place list, source passages and a written transcript. Voices are AI-generated.

Original jacket of Mesopotamia
VOLUME 01Mesopotamia6 mapped places · 48 sec guideExplore map & listen →
Original jacket of Ancient Egypt
VOLUME 02Ancient Egypt6 mapped places · 43 sec guideExplore map & listen →
Original jacket of The Vedic World
VOLUME 03The Vedic World3 mapped places · 45 sec guideExplore map & listen →
Original jacket of Greece and Rome
VOLUME 04Greece and Rome6 mapped places · 49 sec guideExplore map & listen →
Original jacket of Judaism
VOLUME 05Judaism8 mapped places · 47 sec guideExplore map & listen →
Original jacket of Mesoamerica and the Andes
VOLUME 06Mesoamerica and the Andes6 mapped places · 45 sec guideExplore map & listen →
Original jacket of Zoroastrianism
VOLUME 07Zoroastrianism5 mapped places · 47 sec guideExplore map & listen →
Original jacket of Jainism
VOLUME 08Jainism6 mapped places · 46 sec guideExplore map & listen →
Original jacket of Confucianism
VOLUME 09Confucianism5 mapped places · 45 sec guideExplore map & listen →
Original jacket of Buddhism
VOLUME 10Buddhism6 mapped places · 47 sec guideExplore map & listen →
Original jacket of Daoism
VOLUME 11Daoism4 mapped places · 47 sec guideExplore map & listen →
Original jacket of Classical Hinduism
VOLUME 12Classical Hinduism4 mapped places · 47 sec guideExplore map & listen →
Original jacket of Pagan Europe
VOLUME 13Pagan Europe4 mapped places · 42 sec guideExplore map & listen →
Original jacket of Early Christianity
VOLUME 14Early Christianity7 mapped places · 48 sec guideExplore map & listen →
Original jacket of Mahayana Buddhism
VOLUME 15Mahayana Buddhism4 mapped places · 47 sec guideExplore map & listen →
Original jacket of Imperial Christianity
VOLUME 16Imperial Christianity8 mapped places · 47 sec guideExplore map & listen →
Original jacket of Islam
VOLUME 17Islam7 mapped places · 44 sec guideExplore map & listen →
Original jacket of Sunni and Shia
VOLUME 18Sunni and Shia6 mapped places · 44 sec guideExplore map & listen →
Original jacket of Shinto
VOLUME 19Shinto4 mapped places · 45 sec guideExplore map & listen →
Original jacket of Zen
VOLUME 20Zen5 mapped places · 45 sec guideExplore map & listen →
Original jacket of Tibetan Buddhism
VOLUME 21Tibetan Buddhism4 mapped places · 47 sec guideExplore map & listen →
Original jacket of Sufism
VOLUME 22Sufism6 mapped places · 45 sec guideExplore map & listen →
Original jacket of Ifá and the Yoruba World
VOLUME 23Ifá and the Yoruba World4 mapped places · 44 sec guideExplore map & listen →
Original jacket of Sikhism
VOLUME 24Sikhism6 mapped places · 45 sec guideExplore map & listen →
Original jacket of The Reformation
VOLUME 25The Reformation7 mapped places · 44 sec guideExplore map & listen →
Original jacket of The African Diaspora Religions
VOLUME 26The African Diaspora Religions6 mapped places · 47 sec guideExplore map & listen →
Original jacket of Modern Hinduism
VOLUME 27Modern Hinduism7 mapped places · 44 sec guideExplore map & listen →
Original jacket of The Nineteenth-Century New Religions
VOLUME 28The Nineteenth-Century New Religions7 mapped places · 48 sec guideExplore map & listen →
Original jacket of Pentecostalism
VOLUME 29Pentecostalism7 mapped places · 44 sec guideExplore map & listen →
Original jacket of Rastafari
VOLUME 30Rastafari4 mapped places · 44 sec guideExplore map & listen →
Original jacket of The Unaffiliated
VOLUME 31The Unaffiliated3 mapped places · 48 sec guideExplore map & listen →

Selected reading guides, not complete gazetteers. Modern coastlines and approximate locations are explained in each map. A marker does not establish the historical accuracy of every account associated with a place.