Best way to navigate religion on the way to Cult Of Personality?

[RamblinWreck]

I've spent the last few weeks familiarizing myself with the mod and the  vast amount of new stuff in it. Now that I've gotten a handle on it enough to start planning, I've been thinking up leader/civic combinations to try. One that seems like it would be fun is a Cult of Personality-flavored dictatorship, but the unhappiness from religion is tripping me up. How do you minimize the spread of religion before you can block it with a civic? The only way I can see to remove a religion is with inquisitors, but I can't remove  all rreligion with those. Is it just a matter of racing to Shwedagon Paya and hoping none of my neighbors found a religion?

Update: I gave it a try and turns out it's pretty easy (or maybe I just got lucky). I avoided opening borders with any neighbors, researched almost all of Ritual and Meditation so I could swoop right in and finish them after someone else founded the religions, and saved an engineer to help build Shwedagon Paya.