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  2. Religion in France - Wikipedia

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    In 2016, Ipsos Global Trends, a multi-nation survey held by Ipsos and based on approximately 1,000 interviews, found that Christianity is the religion of 45% of the working-age, internet connected population of France; 42% stated they were Catholic, 2% stated that they were Protestants, and 1% declared to belong to any Orthodox church.

  3. Protestant church music during and after the Reformation

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    Church music during the Reformation developed during the Protestant Reformation in two schools of thought, the regulative and normative principles of worship, based on reformers John Calvin and Martin Luther. They derived their concepts in response to the Catholic church music, which they found distracting and too ornate. Both principles also ...

  4. Christianity in France - Wikipedia

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    In 2016, Ipsos Global Trends, a multi-nation survey held by Ipsos and based on approximately 1,000 interviews, found that Christianity is the religion of 45% of the working-age, internet connected population of France; 42% stated they were Catholic, 2% stated that they were Protestants, and 1% declared to belong to any Orthodox church.

  5. Catholic Church in France - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] The King of France was known as "His Most Christian Majesty". Following the Protestant Reformation, France was riven by sectarian conflict as the Huguenots and Catholics strove for supremacy in the Wars of Religion until the 1598 Edict of Nantes established a measure of religious toleration.

  6. Protestantism in France - Wikipedia

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    Protestantism in France has existed in its various forms, starting with Calvinism and Lutheranism since the Protestant Reformation. John Calvin was a Frenchman, as were numerous other Protestant Reformers including William Farel , Pierre Viret and Theodore Beza , who was Calvin's successor in Geneva .

  7. Hymnody of continental Europe - Wikipedia

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    The sources of Christian music are the Jewish tradition of psalm singing, and the music of Hellenistic late antiquity. Paul the Apostle mentions psalms, hymns and sacred songs (Ephesians 5:19 and Colossians 3:16) but only in connection with the Christian behavior of the Christians, not with regard to worship music.

  8. Taizé Community - Wikipedia

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    The Taizé Community (French: Communauté de Taizé) is an ecumenical Christian monastic community in Taizé, Saône-et-Loire, Burgundy, France.It is composed of about one hundred brothers, from Catholic and Protestant traditions, who originate from about thirty countries around the world.

  9. History of the Catholic Church in France - Wikipedia

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    Christianity in a Revolutionary Age. Vol. IV : The 20th Century in Europe; the Roman Catholic, Protestant and Eastern Churches (1969) McManners, John. Church and Society in Eighteenth-Century France (2 vol 1998) Mourret, Fernand. History Of The Catholic Church (8 vol, 1931) comprehensive history to 1878. country by country.