Members of evangelical churches, a branch of Protestantism, are increasing. These believers say they are drawn by a more informal liturgy and the emphasis on community.
  • rumschlumpel@feddit.orgEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Which flavor, though? There’s a huge difference between German-style lutheranism and the many regressive denominations from the US.

        • CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Yes, technically. But when talking about how terms are used, protestants are the more progressive denominations while evangelicals are singled out as their own thing. This gets clearer when using the german terms: protestant is protestantisch that is used interchangible with evangelisch, but evangelical is it’s own thing as evangelikal.

          Evsngelicals are not part of what is generally known as the more progressive protestant tradition, although it is a protestant denomination.

      • rumschlumpel@feddit.orgEnglish
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        4 months ago

        It’s a french newspaper and the full article is only available to subscribers, I don’t like to assume.

        • Successful_Try543@feddit.orgEnglish
          2·
          4 months ago

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          Members of evangelical churches, a branch of Protestantism, are increasing.
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           mirrors the rise of evangelical Christianity across France, where Protestantism has traditionally been dominated by older currents rooted in the Lutheran Reformation.
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          Sébastien Fath, a historian and sociologist of religions at France’s National Center for Scientific Research and a recognized expert on the subject, said that today, “at least 58% of Protestants are evangelicals, a figure that may even be underestimated.” According to him, there are currently between 1.1 million and 1.2 million evangelicals in France, spread across some 3,000 places of worship nationwide – including in medium-sized towns where they were previously absent.

    • WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      4 months ago

      And even the term evangelical means very different things. In the netherlands the ‘Evangelische kerken’ are some of the most progressive.

  • Riddick3001@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    The article shows me just a couple of paragraphs and not much info.

    My online search reveals similar article titles over the years. Like this link 1 and link 2.

    The latter states that ; " According to 2023 statistics from the National Council of Evangelicals of France (CNEF), the number of practising Evangelicals in the country has risen from 650,000 in 2017 to 745,000 this year.

    Still, I don’t have much context.