Spliting up Africa and Modern Religions IN SPACE!

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Setting: Fandom tangental, but the only relevant part is that it's just like our world until the late 1990's, where the whole world is united basically overnight into a largely peacful magical kingdom. From there I'm taking a sci-fi route and throwing people onto multiple generation/colony ships and sending them out into the universe, never to

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I'm still in the planning stages really, and I do intend to give as equal treatment as I can to all the major religions, I'm just doing things piecemeal. I specified Islam because I knew for certain that there was a physical place central to the religion and one of my characters, of Persian descent, is asserting that she wears a headscarf, so I wanted to try and determine whether it could be a religious signal, or merely a cultural one. I hadn't thought about Jews and Jerusalem, which is a brain fart on my part, and I did not know at all about the Buddhists, so thank you for pointing them out.

As for the rest, all I can say is I'm quite ignorant of religions other than Christianity (and that too, to a lesser extent), and most of what I do know is from the general (American) media. For example, I know about the Shia/Sunni split in Islam, but it never occurred to me there could be as many denominations as in Christianity. That's on me, of course, but that's why I've searched around and I'm asking questions before I go nailing things down too much. Ignorance can be remedied, and better now than later.