I know it's early, but I think there will be a religion-heavy expansion

[Krikkit1]

Christianity made it at least as far as China and India, though it was a minority religion there. Nestorian Christianity specifically was one of the big players in Central Asia alongside Buddhism and Manichaeism. Christianity also filtered into Persia and the Arabian tribes, and the Goths weren't pagan but Arian Christians. Plus Christianity made it to Sudan and Ethiopia very quickly. So Christianity got around--it's just that Rome dominated a big chunk of the world at the time.

I knew it had gotten that far, was thinking more about significant population portions. But I guess it did get large amounts in all of Romes immediate neighbors Before the fall

 

[thecrazyscot]

I dearly hope religion is much less tedious this time around...

 

[ggmoyang]

This article confirms that full religion mechanic comes in at the exploration age. You can only found pantheon in antiquity.
They also mention the religion mechanic is simplified. Maybe we won't see theological combat in 7.

 

[ggmoyang]

This article says there's no faith resource in Civ 7.

 

[pokiehl]

This article says there's no faith resource in Civ 7.

I like this. Someone else here (forgive me for forgetting who!) astutely observed that in Civ 6, Faith ended up becoming simply "white gold" - just another currency to spend and not all that interesting.

Getting rid of it is a good streamlining move I think. Curious to see how religion fully works in this game.

 

[tedhebert]

This article says there's no faith resource in Civ 7.

Ed also clearly states that religion is going to be an exploration age thing…. before it’s just starting and after it peters out (his words)

and finally he confirms that faith is OUT… Religion will be linked directly to hapiness !

 

[Nikolai II]

In a recent interview I found here on the site, Ed said there would be a simple religion mechanic in the ancient age, a full blown organized religion mechanic in exploration and it being less of a thing in modern.