Tumaniti in Entropan

Since it started becoming popular with the Entropanian population at the beginning of the 20th century, Tumaniti has become one of the largest religions in Entropan. Starting with the Eden Group, a group of immigrants from Tumland who moved over in the late 19th to the early 20th century and began a Tumanitun church in the outskirts of Maledonia, Tumaniti grew through a combination of it being embedded in popular culture through highly influential pieces of media including values and symbology of Tumaniti, and through the generously charitable programs of the Entropanian Tumanitun Church. Entropanian Tumaniti grew, and developed from the Southern Ecrosian counterpart by focusing away from the deity-centred tradition it derived from, and focusing more on ethics of virtue and panpsychism, with it also including the national election of representatives to devolved Regional Communions, who then delegate to the National Communion.

Today, Tumaniti is the largest religion in Entropan, narrowly beating out the traditional Christianity that has dominated Entropan, with 21.8% of Entropanians being adherent to Tumaniti, according to the 2021 census. It has significant influence within Entropanian society, with many influential political figures, including several formed Prime Ministers, being Tumaniti. The prevalence of Tumaniti is also cited as reasoning for the implementation and success of many policy endeavours of the Entropanian government, including environmental protection legislation, due to the focus on nature and the environment in the Tumaniti religion, and the closeness of Entropan with Tumland, and the tight diplomatic co-operation between the two countries in world affairs.

History

Early introduction of Tumaniti (1753-1889)

Before the Eden Group, several immigrants from Tumland set up their own communities, particularly in northern provinces of Uryho, in order to set up their own churches, and live according to the values of Tumaniti, most of them coming following the fall of the Folkonian Empire in 1778. These communities, known in Entropan as the Konkordoj (harmonies), were primarily self-sustaining, with resources for the churches being sourced by buying those resources using profits generated by multi-generational sale of agricultural products. A lot is known about the way of life in these early Tumanitun communities, as their extensive record-keeping has survived to documentation.

These communities practised Communal Tumaniti, with their practices baring a mark of being substantially more ascetic than other Tumanitun communities around the world. The Communal interpretation of Tumaniti mythology heavily emphasised the communitarian values of Tumaniti, with their own mythology preaching the utmost avoidance of vice and hubris by not placing any emphasis on earthly possessions.

However, these communities were short-lived, with only Dovegerne, a community residing in a mountain range of northern Uryho, surviving to the 21st century, with most of the causes they ultimately succumbed to being famine, widespread disease, or natural disaster. The Second Entropanian Civil War destroyed some of the communities that survived devastating natural events, with the Heavenly League, a far-right Catholic fundamentalist group, burning the villages of many of the remaining communities in their prosecution against non-Catholic religiosity.

The Eden Group (1890-present)

In 1890, 14 people from Tumland, disliking how Tumaniti religious institutions were developing in Tumland, decided to move to Entropan to set up their own group in order to spread the values of their Tumaniti denomination, Edenic Tumaniti, to Entropanian citizens. This group began to hand out pamphlets and write books, including collating Tumaniti mythology and writing their own form of a holy scripture (The Book of Eden), under the name "The Eden Group", derived from the Tumaniti conception of Eden,

Maledonian Church

The Maledonian Church was set up in 1894, on the outskirts of Maledonia, on a plot of land bought from a housing developer for the today-equivalent of QBC₵121,000, having raised the money through the sale of their own written Tumaniti books in bookstores across Maledonia.