what is eastern europes religions?
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There are a great deal of religious traditions in eastern europe.  Roman Catholicism, Orthodox, Islam and Judaism amoung them,
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yes i'm orthodox!are you romanian?cause i am
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The Eastern Orthodox Church broke with the Catholic Church in the 11th Century, over details of the governing of the church, especially whether or not the pope was the head of the church. The source below has detailed information on its beliefs and the formation of the church.
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Islam. and its growing mostly in Europa and America.
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The Celtic Rite is actually one of the most "Eastern" of those in the West.  The Celts had strong ties with Coptic Egypt and its tradition of the Thebaid through the Ukrainian Saint, John Cassian.  There are still mentioned in Celtic liturgical sources a veneration for "Seven Coptic Monks" buried in Ireland.
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It has a little to do with religion, but more to do with politics.  The Greeks were the originators of Orthodox Catholicism.  The Russians adopted it later and everyone was happy for a while.  Then the Greeks declined and Russia ascended in power.  When Byzantium collapsed, the Russians essentially took over as leaders and protectors of the Orthodox religion.  Of course they made certain changes that the Greeks didn't agree with and you see your first big split.  All's cool again for a while until Russian Orthodoxy decides to make a few reforms.  Nothing major, but trying to correct some corrupted texts, slightly change a few traditions, that sort of thing.  Unfortunately, the Russian method of encouraging change has always been rather...forceful.  Whoever wouldn't change was excomunicated.  The big problem with this was that it seemed to say that all the people and saints who had gone before and practiced Orthodoxy by the old ways were irredeemably wrong.  Certain traditional Russians couldn't accept such this, and the second big split occurred.  Then you have Russia's imperial ambitions.  Russia thought of itself as the defender of the faith, with Moscow being like a '3rd Rome.' It wished to be a hegemon in Eastern Europe and used this religious mandate as justification.  The other countries would have been more or less willing to let Russia have it's way - it's nice having big friends, after all - except that as the best and the biggest, Russia expected these other countries to become like mini-Russias.  Russia thus tried to impose its language, government, religion, etc. on them.  Eventually these countries had enough and wanted to split.  Now keep in mind that religion at this time is inherently linked to power and to government.  To split from Russia but keep its religious leaders as the head of your religion is not to split from Russia at all.  So you end up seeing a lot of nationally divided splinter groups.  I'm not saying there aren't also legitimate theological differences, but they were probbly  initiated and exaggerated by political factors.
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1.) The Eastern Roman Empire, having Rome and Italy in it, necessarily had higher levels of corruption, and a lower percentage of citizens in the legions. \n2.) The Western Roman Empire, was effectively started by Constantine, who was the chief influence that caused the Roman Empire to take Christianity as its state religion.\n\nReligion played a huge role in both empires - in the East, successor states in the area generally did not survive unless they adopted Christianity (especially when powerful rulers such as Charlemagne specifically went around thumping pagans). In the West, the Roman empire became the Byzantine Empire (although it was never referred to as such by its denizens), and it's emperors often felt that they were the head of the Church. Byzantine Emperors went so far as to depose popes that got in their way (when they could).\n\nFor your questions:\n+ how did the differences in what happened bring them back together for the Crusades/How did the similarities:\n\nThe Byzantines and the European states worked together during the Crusades for differing reasons. As most of Europe was thoroughly Christianized, they ran into a paradox: Christian leaders weren't supposed to fight amongst one another, thus, they should be fighting infidels. This led to a lot of warriors going to Spain for the Reconquista, to the East to stomp Pagans, and to the Middle East for the Crusades. The Byzantines were desperately trying to reverse centuries of decline, especially after they lost large chunks of Anatolia (modern Turkey) to the Arabs.  Unfortunately, the differences in religion meant that after the Second Crusade (when the Byzantines had less apt rulers), the Europeans didn't care if they screwed their allies (a la the Sack of Constantinople in 1204) or left them to the wolves.\n\n+ why the Crusades were a turning point in history (consider the effects)\n\nFirst, the Crusades greatly broadened the horizons of the Europeans, giving them a new taste for foreign trade and travel. Second, the Crusades reversed the Arabs for quite a while - without the Crusades, Constantinople falls in the 1200's or 1300's to the Muslims instead of 1450. Third, the Crusades strengthened the Christian Church, setting up the events that would lead to Protestantism.\n\n+ how the effects of the Crusades can still be seen in our world today\n\nMany Muslims consider the Crusades proof that Christians are just interested in slaughtering them - they remember that the Crusaders were often merciless with the Muslims they fought (conveniently forgetting that the Muslims weren't all much better).\n\n+ the fate of the Western Roman Empire\n\nThe Western Roman Empire fell in the mid 5th century after Rome was sacked yet again by the Visigoths. The traditional date is September 4, 476 when Romulus Augustus, the Emperor of the Western Roman Empire was deposed by Odoacer, a Germanic chieftain.\n\n+ the fate of the Eastern Roman Empire\n\nThe Eastern Roman Empire fell on May 28th, 1453 when Sultan Mehmed II captured Constantinople. Emperor Constantine XI was killed in the final battle.\n\nHopefully, the terms and names given here are enough to spur extra research.
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There will be more mosques in europe than churches (it is true)
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Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Islam, Catholicism, and Protestantism.\n\nI believe however that most people are what is sometimes called Chinese Traditional Religion, which is a mixture of beliefs from Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism, as well as local worship practices and beliefs, including ancestor worship and so on.  394 million are said to be Chinese Traditional Religion.
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today: people from Bohemia (East Europe)
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Ireland is largely a Christian country, mostly Roman Catholic. What are you looking for that this statement doesn't answer?
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turkey is a european country
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I live in the United States and the Eastern Orthodox churches are few and far between. Besides, I did a little research on their beliefs and I'm not to impressed. They are very big into icons and I know that that can lead to other things. Other then that i respect all Eastern orthodox Christians. In fact, I hope to one day actually go to one of their services and see what it's like.
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Eastern European countries have slavic backgrounds, whereas the Western European countries tend to have Germanic and Romantic backgrounds. Also, many eastern countries have weakened economies due to years of communist rule, whereas some of the strongest economies in the world are in Western Europe.
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Here is a good link about Russian Orthodox beliefs and history. They are not Catholics.\n\nhttp://countrystudies.us/russia/38.htm
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I am sponsoring a child in Ethiopia.  Most Ethiopians are Christians of the Orthodox variety.  Very, very similar to Catholic.
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The major religions of China are:\n\nConfucianism - exact numbers unknown [majority] \nTaoism and ancestor worship - exact numbers unknown [majority] \nBuddhism - exact numbers unknown [8 to 12%]