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The largest religion in Europe is Christianity. [1] However, irreligion and practical secularisation are also prominent in some countries. [2] [3] In Southeastern Europe, three countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Albania) have Muslim majorities, with Christianity being the second-largest religion in those countries. Little is known ...
Extended map: 16:52, 14 January 2018: 447 × 424 (59 KB) Artoxx: In 1974 northern Cyprus became homogeneously Turkish and Muslim and southern Cyprus became homogeneously Greek and Greek Orthodox. 18:36, 19 March 2017: 447 × 424 (69 KB) Ernio48: Correction. 18:24, 1 March 2017: 447 × 424 (71 KB) Denghu: Orthodox Christianity included: 19:46, 4 ...
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The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500–1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500). The first early European modern humans appear in the fossil record about 48,000 years ago, during the Paleolithic era.
The bulk of the human religious experience pre-dates written history, which is roughly 7,000 years old. [1] A lack of written records results in most of the knowledge of pre-historic religion being derived from archaeological records and other indirect sources, and from suppositions. Much pre-historic religion is subject to continued debate.
This is an overview of religion by country or territory in 2010 according to a 2012 Pew Research Center report. [1] The article Religious information by country gives information from The World Factbook of the CIA and the U.S. Department of State .
The latest history brought increased secularisation, as well as religious pluralism. [20] According to Scholars, in 2017, Europe's population was 77.8% Christian (up from 74.9% 1970), [21] [22] these changes were largely result of the collapse of Communism and switching to Christianity in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries. [21]
Lee writes that hostility toward Christianity as expressed in the Anti-Christian Movement (1925–1926) and in the anti-religious Maoist Era (1949–1976), "the impact of regime change, encounters with secular state-building, the church's involvement in transforming local religious and socio-economic landscapes, and the importance of religious ...