Yeah, that's Kalmykia, which was settled by the [Kalmyks](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalmyks) in the 17th and 18th centuries. They migrated from Mongolia and brought Buddhism with them
Unfortunately it’s been a rough story the last century or so for Kalmykia.
The Kalmyks had a good relationship with the Russian Empire serving as border guards and Cossacks, and mainly fought alongside the counter-revolutionaries in the civil war. The Soviets used a soft hand at first to try and co-opt the Kalmyks, especially after they had won the civil war (though many fled into exile).
Things started to go south with Stalin’s growing influence in the late 1920s, as the Kalmyks were subject to brutally harsh de-Cossackization and collectivization measures.
Then in 1942 the Kalmyk capital, Elista, was captured by the Germans (it served as the main anchor point between the German positions at Stalingrad and those in the Caucasus), who played on anti-Soviet sentiment and brought in many Kalmyk exiles to co-opt the population.
When the Soviets drove the Germans back in 1943, the exiles and the new collaborators fled. Despite the fact that most Kalmyks had not worked with the Germans and many others had fought for the Red Army, Stalin accused the Kalmyks of collaborating with the enemy and in December 1943 ordered the entire population to be deported to Central Asia and Siberia.
Stalin brought in Russian and Ukrainian settlers to replace them and renamed all the cities and towns in Kalmykia, dissolving the republic. In 1957 after Stalin’s death, Krushchev allowed the Kalmyks to return and restored their republic and city names. However the Kalmyks struggled for decades to re-establish their land, lifestyle, and population centers.
When the Soviet Union fell, Kalmykia became an autonomous republic of the Russian Federation. Elista did become a showpiece city with federal funding as well as the immense personal wealth of oligarch president Ilyumzhinov (who attempted to turn the city into the world’s chess capital, building a massive complex and hosting international tournaments). The rest of the republic remains poor and neglected, though the Kalmyks have been able to somewhat return to their traditional steppe lifestyle.
Lenin has khalmyk ancestry too, fathers side
And the reason the khalmyk oirat-mongols migrated from dzungaria was due to the genocide of 1755-57
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzungar_genocide
>a unionist party was the plurality of the vote for the first time.
The unionists are the ones who emphasize loyalty to Britain. Aren't the nationalists catching up?
Belfast is mixed in terms of Catholic-Protestant. North and West is Catholic and East and South is full of Protestants
They have filled the Protestant areas quite well, although areas like Cushendall (big Catholic and Hurling area) not to mention mixed towns like Lurgan and Dungannon are mixed into one area despite being divided towns
But aye it is fairly accurate
Funny thing about Scotland in general, it's one of the most faithless countries in Europe, people only associate with either religion for football / political reasons
Not really. Depending upon which survey year you work from in the past decade Scotland is either as religious or slightly more religious than England and Wales statistically. The old firm is a big deal with powerful ethnoreligious undertones sure but Scotland's relationship with religion goes alot further than that. Lot of young Scots on the internet seem pretty divorced from Scotland's religious history though, I sometimes see comments on here about *England forcing its protestantism on Scotland* as if John Knox and the Scottish reformation didn't make Scotland more evangelically protestant than anywhere else in the British Isles and slightly earlier.
I don't think so. There are only two regions in Kazakhstan where Christians outnumber Muslims, and they are in the northcentral area, not the northeast (actually, a tiny bit of Kostanay oblast sneaks onto this map, due east of Bashkortostan). The three oblasts coloured red here are West Kazakhstan (78.4% Muslim, 15.8% Christian), Atyrau (83.7% Muslim, 4.4% Christian), and Aqtobe (84.0% Muslim, 9.8% Christian).
I think the author was looking on the number of people identifying as Sunni. But most Kazakhs to my knowledge self-report as “just Muslim”, which for some reasons frequently stand as a separate entry in Kazakh questioners.
The ones you see on the map are Calvinists, they live all across the country but they are only a majority around Debrecen AFAIK. Even Hungary's prime minister Viktor Orbán is calvinist. There are also quite a few lutherans and even [greek catholics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Greek_Catholic_Church) in Hungary
No, not even close, but they still persecuted them so vehemently all the way until the early 20th century that they only remain as an extremely sparsely dispersed minority. The vast majority fled to other countries, especially in the New World, similar to the Irish.
Fascinating, thank you
Would love a recommendation on documenary/articles on the subject if you have,
From my "history" reading, I could've sworn France was a battleground between the protestants and catholics, shows how much gap I have in my reading
yeah.... a legend would be awesome... why is armenia more red than greece?
Also its outdated... Azerbaijan invaded Nagorno-Karabagh and now there is nobody but soldiers (they all flee from them).
Not at all.
Neither existed as something distinct before the Christological controversies leading up to Chalcedon.
Before those same controversies there wasn't a distinction. They broke off from each other, the Oriental Orthodox were largely Middle-Eastern based, while the Eastern Orthodox were largely Greece based.
Oriental Ortodoxy didn't split from Eastern Orthodoxy, it split from Chalcedonian creed. Yes you can say that it was technically called the Orthodox Church the whole time, even before the split between Constantinople and Rome, but if we're interested in actual meaning behind words and not technicalities, Eastern Orthodoxy is something that came into being during the Great East-West Schism, same as Catholicism.
It's the Armenian Apostolic church, it doesn't originate from the Roman church and has always worked kind of independently, therefore it's different from the Catholic church and the Eastern Orthodox church. It's part of the Oriental Orthodox Churches and probably the only one that's majority in a place.
Yes but no
When people accuse Christianity of being European, they usually think about protestantism and given how far removed protestantism can be from the rest of Christianity that, in some cases (like evangelicalism) is a fair categorisation
If you're talking about volume of red, there are small groups of Muslim Greeks, Turks, Bulgarians and Albanians living in Thrace
if you mean by shade, Armenians themselves adhere to the Armenian Apostolic Church
That’s apparently true yeah, it’s mostly Greek Catholic Church a holdover from the days of the PLC and the Union of Brest reabsorbing a lot of the Eastern Orthodox
kind of... but as a ukrainian, i want to add that greek catholic church from what I've seen, has pretty little similarity with usual central/western european catholicism
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That’s the thing though, Greek Catholicism is part of eastern rite Catholicism, meaning that it has its own liturgy and traditions but ended up accepting the pope as the head of their church. Any Greek Catholic can go to a Latin (Roman) Catholic rite church and get communion and vice versa. So it’s accurate to say it’s Catholic, because well they are full on Catholics
I looked that one up post haste:
"Kalmykia is the only region in Europe where Buddhism is the predominant religion."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalmykia
[Kalmykia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalmykia) is the only region in Europe where [Bhuddhism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_in_Russia) is the predominant religion.
Is Armenian Christianity different than Eastern Orthodox Christianity?
Also the map would be better with shading representing degree to which each religion is prevalent in the population. As many of these countries have religious minorities and irreligious people.
>Is Armenian Christianity different than Eastern Orthodox Christianity?
Yes, the Armenian Apostolic Church is Miaphysite, not Chalcedonian like the Catholic and Orthodox churches.
That map has to be BS. In the Netherlands 57,2% of the people say they aren't religious, 18,2% say they are roman catholists, 13,2% protestant, 5,9% something else and 5,6% are muslim.
https://longreads.cbs.nl/the-netherlands-in-numbers-2023/what-are-the-major-religions/
So I live in the Netherlands and without counting my grandparents I only know 1 Christian, it might just be this generation but I'd say most of the Netherlands is atheist
The Netherlands is becoming more and more atheistic tho: https://longreads.cbs.nl/nederland-in-cijfers-2021/welk-geloof-hangen-we-aan/
55.4% has "no religion" in 2021
19.8% Catholic
14,4% protestant
5.2% islam
5,1% other (Hindu, Buddhism, the church of the flying spaghetti monster, JW, ETC)
Sweden is right, although I dare to say a vast majority is first and foremost secular agnostics with only vague cultured connection to protestantism. People rarely go to church and many only use it for special occasions such as weddings or funerals.
The Armenian Apostolic Church is a part of the Oriental Orthodoxy wing of Christianity which is neither Catholic nor Eastern Orthodox. They split from the Roman church in the 500s iirc, way before the east/west schism that would happen centuries later.
Been there since the 1500's, and Habsburg counterreformation wasnt working in the East, since it was under Transylvanian and/or Ottoman control. Transylvania had full religious freedom for Lutherans, Calvinists ans Unitarians, and the Ottomans didn't care. When Habsburgs rolled back, the Calvinists were already strong, and they resisted counterreformation measures. They got their rights back from Joseph II. Nowadays ~11% of Hungary are Calvinist, and they live everywhere, but still more concentrated in the East.
Catholics are ruled by the Pope, who is chosen by the clergy themselves, while the Orthodox are ruled by patriarchs, who are chosen by the clergy themselves. They are similar, but just different groups, and there are several patriarchs when there is only one Pope. Protestants are governed by a council of churches, and in the church the head of the parish is elected by the congregation. They are more democratic, but at the same time, as a rule, they are more dependent on the government authorities. In England, in principle, the church has a Catholic structure, but is headed by an king of England instead of a Pope.
Also since Protestants have a less strict structure it means some people can like bend the rules a bit like having a woman pastor or a gay pastor which some consider wrong in the church
But less strict structure means more dependants on government. Like in Germany, pastor literally receive a salary from the state and if he, for example, refused to register same-sex marriages, the “woke” government could literally deprive him of his livelihood. Whereas behind Catholic priests there is a powerful structure independent of countries, protecting them from government pressure.
https://youtu.be/tzLS4O7YaUg?feature=shared
But to basically put it they all originate from splits in the church. Technically Catholicism is the first church as St Peter was a disciple of Jesus and the first pope but it wasn’t called the Catholic Church back then it was just Christianity. Then the great schism happened in 1000 that created Orthodoxy which is explained in more detail in the video. And then Martin Luther basically created Protestantism from the Catholic Church around the renaissance as he believe the Catholic Church was corrupt.
This map is seriously outdated. Especially about my country.
Albania has a minority of practicing Islamic religions. Most are non-practicing (born by origin Muslims but they don’t care at all) and atheists (due to communist propaganda about it for +30 years).
I wonder how the governments keep track of this, is there a record where people actually declare their religion or is it just assumed because of the parents? I know the statistics are kept maybe for tax purposes, but i'm assuming that most of the people in Europe for example are non-religious, if everyone there at some point becomes non-religious, can the "official" religion of the country change?
The problem lies in that many countries in Europe have no official separation or church and state, only a de facto one. Many of us have official state religions, and especially in the case of countries with extant monarchies, no matter how factually irrelevant the state religion becomes, it will mean the country still officially belongs to that religion on paper.
The irony is that this is the opposite of, for example, the USA, which is de jure a secular state with separation of church and state baked into its constitution, but a de facto very Christian country, with its leaders expected to soapbox Christianity and broadcast their beliefs.
Once again, looking at this map, I feel really proud about Georgia and Armenia standing on its own
There was Circissian genocide in 19th century, for example and there was no such thing as russified "Krasnodar Krai" let alone Sochi resort and just imagine preserving culture, religion and identity in that hostile environment for centuries.
I can promise to you, that barely anyone in northern Germany is religious. probably the same for our danish friends in Sønderjylland. seems like a weird map to me.
Germany has both protestants and catholics? Like How the heck do they managed to get along?
Why dose it have to boil down to between transubstantion and consustantion?
They only got along basically as a result of the German wars of unification sparking nationalism as being the bigger unifier, and even then Bismarck attempted kulturkampf against Catholicism while he was chancellor for a time
Technically wrong for Estonia. Largest religion - by number of adherents - is Orthodoxy. Natives (~75%) care so little about religion (~15%) that local Russians' (~20%) much higher religiosity (~50%) pushes it past Protestantism.
"No religion" sits at comfortable ~60%, ofc.
Azerbaijan is neither shia nor sunni. Most arent aware if the difference since they dont know what religion means. 7% practice the religion and most consider sunni and shia labels as some sort of bullshit.
Actual shias are widely disliked and sometimes even called traitors, so are actual sunnis who would be called a wahabi if they grow a beard or say anything good about arabs.
Tibetan Buddhism just chilling there
Yeah, that's Kalmykia, which was settled by the [Kalmyks](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalmyks) in the 17th and 18th centuries. They migrated from Mongolia and brought Buddhism with them
Unfortunately it’s been a rough story the last century or so for Kalmykia. The Kalmyks had a good relationship with the Russian Empire serving as border guards and Cossacks, and mainly fought alongside the counter-revolutionaries in the civil war. The Soviets used a soft hand at first to try and co-opt the Kalmyks, especially after they had won the civil war (though many fled into exile). Things started to go south with Stalin’s growing influence in the late 1920s, as the Kalmyks were subject to brutally harsh de-Cossackization and collectivization measures. Then in 1942 the Kalmyk capital, Elista, was captured by the Germans (it served as the main anchor point between the German positions at Stalingrad and those in the Caucasus), who played on anti-Soviet sentiment and brought in many Kalmyk exiles to co-opt the population. When the Soviets drove the Germans back in 1943, the exiles and the new collaborators fled. Despite the fact that most Kalmyks had not worked with the Germans and many others had fought for the Red Army, Stalin accused the Kalmyks of collaborating with the enemy and in December 1943 ordered the entire population to be deported to Central Asia and Siberia. Stalin brought in Russian and Ukrainian settlers to replace them and renamed all the cities and towns in Kalmykia, dissolving the republic. In 1957 after Stalin’s death, Krushchev allowed the Kalmyks to return and restored their republic and city names. However the Kalmyks struggled for decades to re-establish their land, lifestyle, and population centers. When the Soviet Union fell, Kalmykia became an autonomous republic of the Russian Federation. Elista did become a showpiece city with federal funding as well as the immense personal wealth of oligarch president Ilyumzhinov (who attempted to turn the city into the world’s chess capital, building a massive complex and hosting international tournaments). The rest of the republic remains poor and neglected, though the Kalmyks have been able to somewhat return to their traditional steppe lifestyle.
Lenin has khalmyk ancestry too, fathers side And the reason the khalmyk oirat-mongols migrated from dzungaria was due to the genocide of 1755-57 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzungar_genocide
Have you seen Armenia
It's a unique doctrine, Armenian Apostolic Church. Armenia was the first nation In accepting Christianity as an official religion in the year 301 AD
Rare spawn in EU4
Not pictured: Glasgow.
Also not pictured: Belfast
? They do fill in the protestant section on northern Ireland
Belfast recently became more Catholic than Protestant
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>a unionist party was the plurality of the vote for the first time. The unionists are the ones who emphasize loyalty to Britain. Aren't the nationalists catching up?
Belfast is mixed in terms of Catholic-Protestant. North and West is Catholic and East and South is full of Protestants They have filled the Protestant areas quite well, although areas like Cushendall (big Catholic and Hurling area) not to mention mixed towns like Lurgan and Dungannon are mixed into one area despite being divided towns But aye it is fairly accurate
Isn't Glasgow full of speccy bams?
New Catholic slur dropped
F'off ya prek
Wankstains eh
Wha-?
Isn't Liverpool catholic majority too as far as I know?
Funny thing about Scotland in general, it's one of the most faithless countries in Europe, people only associate with either religion for football / political reasons
Not really. Depending upon which survey year you work from in the past decade Scotland is either as religious or slightly more religious than England and Wales statistically. The old firm is a big deal with powerful ethnoreligious undertones sure but Scotland's relationship with religion goes alot further than that. Lot of young Scots on the internet seem pretty divorced from Scotland's religious history though, I sometimes see comments on here about *England forcing its protestantism on Scotland* as if John Knox and the Scottish reformation didn't make Scotland more evangelically protestant than anywhere else in the British Isles and slightly earlier.
As religious as England or Wales doesn't mean much, I found the people anywhere in the British are much less religious than in South or East of Europe
Is that right for Kazakhstan?
It's not. Russian Orthodoxy is mostly popular in Northern Kazakhstan, not Western
That is northern Kazakhstan, it's just that the map projection is curving the latitude lines.
It's Western Kazakhstan around the Caspian Sea (West Kazakhstan Region and Atyrau Region according to map)
I don't think so. There are only two regions in Kazakhstan where Christians outnumber Muslims, and they are in the northcentral area, not the northeast (actually, a tiny bit of Kostanay oblast sneaks onto this map, due east of Bashkortostan). The three oblasts coloured red here are West Kazakhstan (78.4% Muslim, 15.8% Christian), Atyrau (83.7% Muslim, 4.4% Christian), and Aqtobe (84.0% Muslim, 9.8% Christian).
Should be about right for the northern bits
Narrator: those were not, in fact, Northern bits
I checked and you're right, the 2 regions on this map only have 5% and 15% christians respectively
I think the author was looking on the number of people identifying as Sunni. But most Kazakhs to my knowledge self-report as “just Muslim”, which for some reasons frequently stand as a separate entry in Kazakh questioners.
Kazakhstan is like 70% Muslim, that is absolutely not right.
Russians live in Kazakhstan
What’s up with Protestantism in Hungary?
The ones you see on the map are Calvinists, they live all across the country but they are only a majority around Debrecen AFAIK. Even Hungary's prime minister Viktor Orbán is calvinist. There are also quite a few lutherans and even [greek catholics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Greek_Catholic_Church) in Hungary
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Yo hold up that fancy cloak is at least a B scale in intelligence and that pastor cute
It's crazy how catholic France looks Did they really successfully kill off/forced out all the Huguenots?
No, not even close, but they still persecuted them so vehemently all the way until the early 20th century that they only remain as an extremely sparsely dispersed minority. The vast majority fled to other countries, especially in the New World, similar to the Irish.
A bunch of Huguenots went to Ulster and developed the linen trade which and a massive international industry until India was taken.
Fascinating, thank you Would love a recommendation on documenary/articles on the subject if you have, From my "history" reading, I could've sworn France was a battleground between the protestants and catholics, shows how much gap I have in my reading
When you combine red and blue, you get purple
Hungary had a huge protestant and then reformed movement, which was suppressed by the Habsburgs
Hungary was protestant until austria did what it does best and back stabed Hungary
Not really a back stab. More like a front stab. Like a couple thousand guys front stabbing you and your protestant friends.
Fair
i don't know why most maps on this sub reddit have so many errors
yeah.... a legend would be awesome... why is armenia more red than greece? Also its outdated... Azerbaijan invaded Nagorno-Karabagh and now there is nobody but soldiers (they all flee from them).
Armenians are Oriental Orthodox, it's not the same church as Orthodox.
It's like normal Orthodox... but redder.
Quite different, really.
Older, also
Not at all. Neither existed as something distinct before the Christological controversies leading up to Chalcedon. Before those same controversies there wasn't a distinction. They broke off from each other, the Oriental Orthodox were largely Middle-Eastern based, while the Eastern Orthodox were largely Greece based.
Oriental Ortodoxy didn't split from Eastern Orthodoxy, it split from Chalcedonian creed. Yes you can say that it was technically called the Orthodox Church the whole time, even before the split between Constantinople and Rome, but if we're interested in actual meaning behind words and not technicalities, Eastern Orthodoxy is something that came into being during the Great East-West Schism, same as Catholicism.
It's the Armenian Apostolic church, it doesn't originate from the Roman church and has always worked kind of independently, therefore it's different from the Catholic church and the Eastern Orthodox church. It's part of the Oriental Orthodox Churches and probably the only one that's majority in a place.
Not the only. Eritrea is still majority Oriental Orthodox afaik and Ethiopia is 40% Orthodox (still the biggest religion in there)
Shows how Christianity is and always was in essence a Middle Eastern religion, not European as people always seem to think.
Yes but no When people accuse Christianity of being European, they usually think about protestantism and given how far removed protestantism can be from the rest of Christianity that, in some cases (like evangelicalism) is a fair categorisation
Agreed. Which is quite ironic considering the vast majority of Christians follow Apostolic Christianity and Protestants are a minority.
If you're talking about volume of red, there are small groups of Muslim Greeks, Turks, Bulgarians and Albanians living in Thrace if you mean by shade, Armenians themselves adhere to the Armenian Apostolic Church
Also north Kazakhstan
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Are they a majority anywhere? When I search up I get conflicting maps which either show one province or none being Alevi majority
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"ultrareligious groups call them heretics" From what you just described, any Sunni would call them heretics lmao
Any sunni or shia would call them heretic
Why is there no separate legend? Hard to find the labels when they are just one font size larger than the country names.
Where the fuck is the legend
its labelled bruv, but there should be one
actual eastern vs western europe division
I guess Eastern vs Northern vs Central-Western
Yes! Finally everyone will know my country (Albania) isn't in eastern europe!
Is it better being Middle Eastern country ?
I love it!
By what metric is it a middle eastern country?
What
What?
Who?
Person from the Balkans trying to go 3 seconds without being nationalistic challenge (impossible).
I was implying we're middle eastern... r/whoosh
Turkey is not monolithically Sunni. Tunceli province, if not others, is majority Alevi.
catolics majority in lviv oblast? what?
That’s apparently true yeah, it’s mostly Greek Catholic Church a holdover from the days of the PLC and the Union of Brest reabsorbing a lot of the Eastern Orthodox
kind of... but as a ukrainian, i want to add that greek catholic church from what I've seen, has pretty little similarity with usual central/western european catholicism edit: typo
That’s the thing though, Greek Catholicism is part of eastern rite Catholicism, meaning that it has its own liturgy and traditions but ended up accepting the pope as the head of their church. Any Greek Catholic can go to a Latin (Roman) Catholic rite church and get communion and vice versa. So it’s accurate to say it’s Catholic, because well they are full on Catholics
Wtf is that Tibetan Buddhism in southern Russia doing there?
I looked that one up post haste: "Kalmykia is the only region in Europe where Buddhism is the predominant religion." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalmykia
[Kalmykia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalmykia)
[Kalmykia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalmykia) is the only region in Europe where [Bhuddhism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_in_Russia) is the predominant religion.
that weird map in Germany is the result of a 30 year long war
Where are the atheists?
That's more like light foreplay
Is Armenian Christianity different than Eastern Orthodox Christianity? Also the map would be better with shading representing degree to which each religion is prevalent in the population. As many of these countries have religious minorities and irreligious people.
>Is Armenian Christianity different than Eastern Orthodox Christianity? Yes, the Armenian Apostolic Church is Miaphysite, not Chalcedonian like the Catholic and Orthodox churches.
That map has to be BS. In the Netherlands 57,2% of the people say they aren't religious, 18,2% say they are roman catholists, 13,2% protestant, 5,9% something else and 5,6% are muslim. https://longreads.cbs.nl/the-netherlands-in-numbers-2023/what-are-the-major-religions/
So I live in the Netherlands and without counting my grandparents I only know 1 Christian, it might just be this generation but I'd say most of the Netherlands is atheist
The non religious constantly underrepresented in these polls and censuses despite often being the majority.
You're correct, almost 60% of the county doesn't follow a religion.
Czech republic is mostly Atheist or some form of Agnostic.
The Netherlands is becoming more and more atheistic tho: https://longreads.cbs.nl/nederland-in-cijfers-2021/welk-geloof-hangen-we-aan/ 55.4% has "no religion" in 2021 19.8% Catholic 14,4% protestant 5.2% islam 5,1% other (Hindu, Buddhism, the church of the flying spaghetti monster, JW, ETC)
Sweden is right, although I dare to say a vast majority is first and foremost secular agnostics with only vague cultured connection to protestantism. People rarely go to church and many only use it for special occasions such as weddings or funerals.
A lot of this map should be none.
Armenians believe in Armenia?
The Armenian Apostolic Church is a part of the Oriental Orthodoxy wing of Christianity which is neither Catholic nor Eastern Orthodox. They split from the Roman church in the 500s iirc, way before the east/west schism that would happen centuries later.
Protestants in Hungary- who are those people?
Calvinists
As a Presbyterian myself, the continental homies.
Me
What’s the region that has Tibetan Buddhism? I can’t find it on any maps. Maps just show that region as Russia.
Kalmykia, look it up!
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalmykia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalmykia)
What's up with the protestants in eastern Hungary?
Been there since the 1500's, and Habsburg counterreformation wasnt working in the East, since it was under Transylvanian and/or Ottoman control. Transylvania had full religious freedom for Lutherans, Calvinists ans Unitarians, and the Ottomans didn't care. When Habsburgs rolled back, the Calvinists were already strong, and they resisted counterreformation measures. They got their rights back from Joseph II. Nowadays ~11% of Hungary are Calvinist, and they live everywhere, but still more concentrated in the East.
Didn’t one of the Uralic republics in Russia retain indigenous religion? Mari El maybe?
Tibetan Buddhism there? Huh?
Why does protestantism stop at the polish border?
Border shift in 1945. Germans were expelled west while Poles from Ukraine were resettled there. Hence the sharp difference. It’s artificial.
if y'all dont mind mind explaining the difference in orthodox , protestant and catholic christianity , i googled it but i understood nothing so...
Catholics are ruled by the Pope, who is chosen by the clergy themselves, while the Orthodox are ruled by patriarchs, who are chosen by the clergy themselves. They are similar, but just different groups, and there are several patriarchs when there is only one Pope. Protestants are governed by a council of churches, and in the church the head of the parish is elected by the congregation. They are more democratic, but at the same time, as a rule, they are more dependent on the government authorities. In England, in principle, the church has a Catholic structure, but is headed by an king of England instead of a Pope.
Also since Protestants have a less strict structure it means some people can like bend the rules a bit like having a woman pastor or a gay pastor which some consider wrong in the church
But less strict structure means more dependants on government. Like in Germany, pastor literally receive a salary from the state and if he, for example, refused to register same-sex marriages, the “woke” government could literally deprive him of his livelihood. Whereas behind Catholic priests there is a powerful structure independent of countries, protecting them from government pressure.
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https://youtu.be/tzLS4O7YaUg?feature=shared But to basically put it they all originate from splits in the church. Technically Catholicism is the first church as St Peter was a disciple of Jesus and the first pope but it wasn’t called the Catholic Church back then it was just Christianity. Then the great schism happened in 1000 that created Orthodoxy which is explained in more detail in the video. And then Martin Luther basically created Protestantism from the Catholic Church around the renaissance as he believe the Catholic Church was corrupt.
The majority of the Netherlands is atheist.
This is a map of religions, it doesn't count atheism
This map is seriously outdated. Especially about my country. Albania has a minority of practicing Islamic religions. Most are non-practicing (born by origin Muslims but they don’t care at all) and atheists (due to communist propaganda about it for +30 years).
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I wonder how the governments keep track of this, is there a record where people actually declare their religion or is it just assumed because of the parents? I know the statistics are kept maybe for tax purposes, but i'm assuming that most of the people in Europe for example are non-religious, if everyone there at some point becomes non-religious, can the "official" religion of the country change?
The problem lies in that many countries in Europe have no official separation or church and state, only a de facto one. Many of us have official state religions, and especially in the case of countries with extant monarchies, no matter how factually irrelevant the state religion becomes, it will mean the country still officially belongs to that religion on paper. The irony is that this is the opposite of, for example, the USA, which is de jure a secular state with separation of church and state baked into its constitution, but a de facto very Christian country, with its leaders expected to soapbox Christianity and broadcast their beliefs.
In Hungary, there is no official religion to begin with, and religiousity is a thing that you can declare in the census if you want to.
Who would win this theoretical war??
TIL: Buddhism is the majority religion in a number of Russian regions, including Kalmykia, shown orange.
Is that section in the south of Syria meant to be **Jabal al-Durūz**? If so, why is it coloured the same way as the Shia areas?
What about Latvian Orthodox?
Once again, looking at this map, I feel really proud about Georgia and Armenia standing on its own There was Circissian genocide in 19th century, for example and there was no such thing as russified "Krasnodar Krai" let alone Sochi resort and just imagine preserving culture, religion and identity in that hostile environment for centuries.
Blue religion rocks. Would want a yellow one too
Didn't Ossetians follow a traditional religion?
Orthodox Christianity is more common amongst them.
I can promise to you, that barely anyone in northern Germany is religious. probably the same for our danish friends in Sønderjylland. seems like a weird map to me.
We have protestants in Germany? East Germany at that? I don't think I ever met a christian here. Probably just an "on-paper" thing.
What’s up with Armenia?
They have their own independent church which is oriental orthodox and has been in continuous existence since around the 3rd century
Germany has both protestants and catholics? Like How the heck do they managed to get along? Why dose it have to boil down to between transubstantion and consustantion?
That's the thing, they didn't manage to get along. We had a whole ass war over it.
They only got along basically as a result of the German wars of unification sparking nationalism as being the bigger unifier, and even then Bismarck attempted kulturkampf against Catholicism while he was chancellor for a time
This is a map of religions, it doesn't count atheism beacuse by definition, atheism is not a religion.
What’s the story behind eastern hungry being Protestant
What’s Armenia?
Oriental orthodox
People at the middle can't decide
Sunni muslim just chilling somewhere inside russia.
What's the armenian religion?
Oriental orthodox
I would have given Islam a dark red, maybe brown or black color. Suits.
L map
Please use a key for maps. This labeling is pretty bad.
Actually Albania have orthodox, catholic and muslims also some jehovah
please add Man Utd, for scale.
Need to confirm Vatican.
I supose that this is historically because nowasays there are more muslims or evangelists than catholics in my area.
Technically wrong for Estonia. Largest religion - by number of adherents - is Orthodoxy. Natives (~75%) care so little about religion (~15%) that local Russians' (~20%) much higher religiosity (~50%) pushes it past Protestantism. "No religion" sits at comfortable ~60%, ofc.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/11/uk-secularism-on-rise-as-more-than-half-say-they-have-no-religion (Link now fixed.)
Interesting map
People can’t seem to get it’s about the reported majorities religions for those affiliated with one, good Lord
Azerbaijan is neither shia nor sunni. Most arent aware if the difference since they dont know what religion means. 7% practice the religion and most consider sunni and shia labels as some sort of bullshit. Actual shias are widely disliked and sometimes even called traitors, so are actual sunnis who would be called a wahabi if they grow a beard or say anything good about arabs.
I'm guessing that big green blob in the middle of Russia are Tatars?
That’s a beautiful tint of yellow in the bottom
Malta is like 93% Catholic...
The Gaelic-speaking extreme north-west of Scotland (especially the Hebridean Islands) is largely Catholic.
We have catholic regions as well in Bulgaria :D Who made this map? Source? Seems kinda dodgy.
This map has a whole lotta issues
Map cuts off Palestine dontcha know it
It doesn’t matter to whom you are praying because there is no one listening. Tax them all.
I’m actually glad to see this.
Why is there a muslim chunk in russia right above Kazakhstan
Lol, as if Mainz in Germany was more protestant than catholic
In order from least to most based: Poland, Ireland The Holy See
That's just not true
Iraq is over 60 percent Shia.
OP, check Kazakhstan, something tells me ("stan" in the end of fucking word), that majority of population are muslims.
What’s the story behind the Protestants in Hungary and those Tibetan Buddhist in Russia?
Maps like this will just say Russia was atheist thirty years ago and France is Catholic.
Shouldn't Albania be marked Bektashi rather than Sunni?
Atheism is missing. Half the map would have that colour
9/10 native Norwegians are atheists so you might as well put us up as islamic.