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===Religion=== | ===Religion=== | ||
{{wp|Protestantism}} is the predominant unifying feature of Medimerian cultural life and forms the bedrock on which Medimerian cultural history is founded. | {{wp|Protestantism}} is the predominant unifying feature of Medimerian cultural life and forms the bedrock on which Medimerian cultural history is founded. | ||
[[File:South Woodstock Baptist Church, South Woodstock CT.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Protestantism is a defining element of Medimerian history and life, and simple churches built in the Reform tradition are ubiquitous throughout the island.]] | |||
Prior to the 19th century, Medimerians eschewed the idea of denominations in favor of individual church congregations. Pre-19th century Medimeria, accordingly, was home to a wide variety of religious views. The lack of Protestant leaders in [[Levantia]] or abroad led to a focus on hyper-local belief, allowing congregants to freely join and leave local congregations. The pre-19th century religious establishment more or less treated each Protestant congregation as equally legitimate. This settlement ended with the formation of a cohesive set of [[Mercantile Reform Protestantism]] doctrines in [[Equatorial Ostiecia]] in the 19th century as well as the formation of a unified polity of [[Burgundie]], bringing Medimeria into a broader Burgoignesc cultural world. The issue of Mercantile Reform Protestantism sharply divided local believers as those with a more high church view of Church polity and sacraments (such as those who considered themselves [[College_of_Levantine_Churches#Old_Believers|Old Believers]]) were functionally excluded from their belief system. Between about [[1850]] and [[1880]], the approximately third of Protestants who held high church beliefs were socially ostracized as "Crypto-Papists" until action from the new government in [[Burgundie]] worked to enforce civil rights. In the meantime, the high church believers were forced to coalesce socially and politically, and in [[1854]] their congregations joined together as the Canonate of Medimeria and formally associated themselves with the [[Chantry of Alstin]]. In [[1858]], the Canonate of Medimeria was merged into the Chantric [[College_of_Levantine_Churches#Chantric_Christians_in_Levantia|Province of Dericania and the Vandarch]]. The Province was incorporated into the [[College of Levantine Churches]] in [[1954]] and approximately 40% of Protestants in Medimeria are adherents of the Collegiate Church as of [[2030]]. | Prior to the 19th century, Medimerians eschewed the idea of denominations in favor of individual church congregations. Pre-19th century Medimeria, accordingly, was home to a wide variety of religious views. The lack of Protestant leaders in [[Levantia]] or abroad led to a focus on hyper-local belief, allowing congregants to freely join and leave local congregations. The pre-19th century religious establishment more or less treated each Protestant congregation as equally legitimate. This settlement ended with the formation of a cohesive set of [[Mercantile Reform Protestantism]] doctrines in [[Equatorial Ostiecia]] in the 19th century as well as the formation of a unified polity of [[Burgundie]], bringing Medimeria into a broader Burgoignesc cultural world. The issue of Mercantile Reform Protestantism sharply divided local believers as those with a more high church view of Church polity and sacraments (such as those who considered themselves [[College_of_Levantine_Churches#Old_Believers|Old Believers]]) were functionally excluded from their belief system. Between about [[1850]] and [[1880]], the approximately third of Protestants who held high church beliefs were socially ostracized as "Crypto-Papists" until action from the new government in [[Burgundie]] worked to enforce civil rights. In the meantime, the high church believers were forced to coalesce socially and politically, and in [[1854]] their congregations joined together as the Canonate of Medimeria and formally associated themselves with the [[Chantry of Alstin]]. In [[1858]], the Canonate of Medimeria was merged into the Chantric [[College_of_Levantine_Churches#Chantric_Christians_in_Levantia|Province of Dericania and the Vandarch]]. The Province was incorporated into the [[College of Levantine Churches]] in [[1954]] and approximately 40% of Protestants in Medimeria are adherents of the Collegiate Church as of [[2030]]. | ||
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