Just where the current climate we live in got its start. If you wanna go way back.
I don't think so - although I think it goes far back. The current woke ideologies come from critical theory. Originally a Marxist legal theory, now applied to race, meant to tear at the fabric of society through your classic Hegelian dialectic.
It feels like a religion because it IS the religion of the left. Ironically you have other posters freaking out over the fact that some people are starting to notice the Marxist root in all this, and have a principled push-back.