Religions in Europe

The Religion in Europe

History

The Paganism in Antiquity

Before the arrival of the Christianity and its expansion at the beginning of the thousand-year-old Ier, the various people Indo - Européen S venerated their Gods and had their own religion.

In Western Europe, the Paganisme was the form of the most current religion.

*Les Germains (Scandinavian, Saxon, etc) had as a religion the Odinisme.
*Les Celtic: Celtic Religion (see Druidisme and Celtic Mythology).
*Les Romains had to them Roman religion.

One of the common points between these various traditional religions is the Polythéisme, the belief in several gods.

The Prosélytisme was not widespread among the European people, each religion being related to an ethnos group; there was thus no reason to impose its religion on others. These religions were traditional, organic, and rested on the Indo-European tri-functionality. Christianization was complete in XIVè century, date of the forced christianization of the Baltic people, the pagan last of Europe.

Catholicism

Protestantism

Islam

Néo-paganism

As of the XIXe century one notes a resurgence of these traditional religions, with the romanticism. It is about the Néo-paganism. Wagner for example taken again Germanic mythology to compose the tetralogy of Nibelungen.

At the 20th century the movement continues, and in 1973, the Odinisme is recognized like official religion in Iceland, as well as Christianity. Norway follows the step, then Denmark which with the pagan movement Forn Sidr in 2003, recognizes officially paganism. The Baltic States also recognized paganism as a religon, and Greece is seriously in way there to arrive.

Judaism

Dividing lines

NORTH-SOUTH line

Europe disntingue by a protesting north and a catholic south like some hearths calvinists dispersed in all Europe.

Fracture in the east

Since the Great schism of the East, a rank left Eastern Europe is orthodoxe.

A myriad of influences come from the south, the Close East and the Far East

The influence of Islam as of the 8th century (in 711), then religions come from the East contributed to diversify the religious practice in Europe.

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