Cultivationism

Cultivationism was a doctrine in Costeny that proposed and favored toleration of non-Cositene religions and their communities; instead of violently and iconoclastically destroying these 'pagan' faiths and removing even evidence of their existence from records, as was normally practiced since the Cositene expansion, these communities were to be 'cultivated' by Cositene authorities to gradually approach realization of Costeny's truths. It most apparently manifested in formal tolerance for non-Cositene beliefs beginning in the later 16th century, with practitioners of ??? traditional religions, Kurangper, and other minor faiths allowed to conduct their rites in public and openly build places of worship, however they were also monitored by 'cultivation councils' made up of Cositene clerics who also constantly tried to syncretize these religions' truths with Costeny, or simply persuade their adherents to accept the latter without abandoning their original beliefs. Tastanism remained violently persecuted however.