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英美宗教文化-- Religion in Britain and the U.S. 分类：英美文化习俗 2010-01-28 20:19 阅读(456)评论(0)编辑删除 Religion in Britain and the U.S. About Christianity As we know, most people in Britain believed in Christianity. Christianity is the worlds largest single religion, with an estimated 2.0 billion followers or about 33% of the worlds population. Christianity has numerous religious traditions that widely vary by culture, as well as thousands of different beliefs and branches. Christianity is generally grouped into three main branches: (1)Roman Catholicism 天主教 the largest single denomination教派, with over one billion adherents.信徒 People in many western European countries(such as France, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Poland, parts of the U.S. and Latin America ) belong to the Roman Catholic Church. The head is the Pope, who lives in Vatican City, which is an independent state under the absolute authority of the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. It is an enclave with Rome, Italy, which is to say, it lies in the city of Rome. (2)Orthodox Christianity东正教 It was separated from Catholicism in 1054. People in some eastern European countries (such as, Greece, Cyprus, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Russia) belong to the Orthodox Eastern Church. (3)Protestantism 新教 It was separated from the Roman Catholic Church at the Reformation in the 16th century. It is spreading over Britain, the U.S.A., Germany, Switzerland, Northern Europe, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, including Anglicanism英国国教, Calvinism加儿文教, Lutheranism路德教 (of course, the leader was Martin Luther), and Methodism 卫理公会派 Britain In Britain, there are mainly three main churches: (1) the Church of England, or Anglican Church It is established church during the Reformation, and it represents the official state religion. Its head is the king or queen of Britain. (2) the Church of Scotland or the Scotland Presbyterian Church. People of Scotland belong to this church, it is a Presbyterian church.