Sixth Great Awakening

The **Sixth Great Awakening** also known as the **Second Reformation,** in many nations and communities, was a global period of Abrahamic religious history that began with the first successful imaging of the Birth of Christ via Chronoscope in 2088. While it began as a primarily Christian religious awakening, the impact of the Chronoscope spread to every religion causing religious restructures and schisms the world over from the end of the 2080s until at least the 2120s.

## History

One of the earliest adopters of commercially available chronoscopes was Fordham University who would be the first of many Jesuit universities to adopt chronoscopes to directly image lost religious texts and events. Initially perused as a continuation of the Fifth Great Awakening early research by Jesuit universities into Abrahamic history had the aim of further demystifying religious history, however it had the opposite effect giving rise to new religious literalists. Wealthy literalists served as benefactors to religious research universities demanding they aggressively pursue the original translations of biblical stories and if possible their inspiring events.

By the 2100s, the movement had directly or indirectly aided in the discovery of many original texts and stories from the Abrahamic faiths causing a great deal of upheaval among the faithful. It is believed by some that this was key to the disintegration of the Turkish empire in the mid 2090s, and aided the rise of traditionalists in many neo-feudal societies. The 2100s saw the Catholic Church in particular be divided more than at any time in recent history, as Pope Adrian VII organized an ecumenical council to integrate source material into a new Catholic Bible. The council led to the Scientific Schism, in which Catholics loyal to Pope Adrian VII adopted the bible based on direct translations of source material from the chronoscope (mostly worshipers from the Americas), while conservative Catholics rejected the Chronoscope itself as heretical and rallied around the first major antipope since the 15th century, electing Pope Pius XIII and basing the church in Basilica of Our Lady of Licheń. The schism would remain in force until near the end of the Third Mexican-American War as Polish and Mexican leaders pressured the two Catholic branches to reunify so as to improve the factions' respective support for the war.

Among Muslims, the Chronoscope ignited a furious debate over whether images of the Prophet violated many muslims' attitudes toward aniconism in the faith. The divide permeated every denomination regardless of how liberal or conservative. Many Islamic Scholars shared their Christian colleagues' enthusiasm for the Chronoscope as a means of establishing primary sources for many of the Prophet's quotations, and considered that since the Chronoscope was not a drawing or an artificially generated image, it was definitionally not a form of aniconism. Those centers of learning that pursued this line of thinking worked with their partners to eventually draft a version of the Quran with quotations edited to reflect the Prophet's actual words, while some quotations were entirely omitted after years and teams of chronographers failing to find reference to them. The Direct Soured Quran, or DSQ, often known as the Algiers Quran, effectively codified a new schism within Islam with Sunnis and Shiites becoming common members of the Mukhlis denomination while adherents to the DSQ became part of the new Maerifiun denomination.