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Bad Kitty!

49% Roman Catholic, 48% Protestant

bigbluesky2006

Short answer... 49% Roman Catholic, 48% Protestant

Long answer...
Switzerland is divided into 26 cantons, whose borders often mark religious and linguistic areas. Most cantons were created with either a Protestant majority (like Geneva and Zurich) or a Catholic one (like Valais, Fribourg and Lucerne). Where two communities share the same territory, cantons are divided into half-cantons. For example, Basle City (Protestant) and Basle Country (Catholic). Mentalities vary greatly, according to factors such as religion, language and whether people live in town or the country. Thus, people from rural, Catholic, German- speaking cantons have a very different mentality from those living in Geneva.

Even though people are hard working, motivations for working and the general attitude toward life is not the same. Among the 30% of â€œauthenticâ€ Genevans in Geneva, what matters is money in the bank rather than indulging in spending. Parsimony, modesty and long term views are the rule and make Genevan businessmen a prosperous bunch. Apart from saving and investing, the Genevans will feel strongly obliged to give money to charities (of which thereâ€™s no lack in Geneva). This mentality is skillfully described in Albert Cohenâ€™s books (Solal, Belle du Seigneur).

In Catholic, rural areas, people are not inhibited at all to spend their money for expensive cars or Texas-sized houses, and feel a duty toward their family at large. Corporate paternalism and nepotism are seen as values. Family and quality of life tend to be rated higher than profit, especially when people have worked hard enough above basic needs to be wealthy by their communityâ€™s standards. Those who build corporate empires are seen as lacking common sense, and the point of piling up many times more money that one can use is not understood. These differences in Weltanschauung exist even among people who are not religious in the least.

Honesty is the rule among the Swiss, and for a very practical reason. The Swiss do not need to work themselves into an early grave to make a nice living, but one act of dishonesty can tarnish a reputation and make life much harder. The moral of self-interest can thus partly explain the scrupulous honesty of most Swiss.

The work ethic is strong throughout Switzerland, but the reasons for this vary. In Protestant cities like Zurich or Geneva, the driving force is morality, the conviction that only those who work hard will be redeemed (read Max Weber), whereas in rural and Catholic cantons, where poverty ruled only 50 years ago, working hard has always been the only way of surviving for the mountain peasants. Today, people are much better off, but the ethic of hard work remains strong.

slutface

mormon.

miamite

Switzerland has no country-wide religion. The most popular religion in Switzerland is Roman Catholic Church in Switzerland (43% of the population). There are various Protestant denominations (35%), while immigration has brought Islam (4%) and Eastern Orthodoxy (2%) as sizeable minority religions state religion.

The Worlds Advice

it doesn't have just one religion... the population will differ in religions!

I'm guessing that the most followed religion would be christianity.

JoToCo

Christianity... They're mostly christians

knowbuddycares

Roman Catholic Church, the Old Catholic Church, the Swiss Reformed Church

Goddess of Grammar

The two switzerland-is-yours answers are quite good, but I feel the need to correct a few points.

>Short answer... 49% Roman Catholic, 48% Protestant

Miamite's statistics are probably more up-to-date. Even they are surprising; I would guess a higher proportion of Muslims. But that may be due to a smear campaign by one of the political parties, which claimed that Muslims would be the majority within a decade or so.

>Long answer...
Switzerland is divided into 26 cantons, whose borders often mark religious and linguistic areas. Most cantons were created with either a Protestant majority (like Geneva and Zurich) or a Catholic one (like Valais, Fribourg and Lucerne). Where two communities share the same territory, cantons are divided into half-cantons.

The 26 cantons include the 3x2 half-cantons, and they weren't all divided on the basis of religion as the above seems to suggest.

>In Catholic, rural areas, people are not inhibited at all to spend their money for expensive cars or Texas-sized houses

This strikes me as a bit of a stretch.

Swiss residents normally have to pay church taxes, if they identify themselves as either Catholic or "Protestant" and there is such a church in their community. They can instead identify no religion or another religion and won't be taxed. (No other religions are allowed to tax.)

I put "Protestant" in quotes because it's pretty much a bad word here. Swiss Reformed is the correct expression. I don't think I've come across any OTHER "Protestant" groups; there certainly isn't the wide range there is in Canada. I thought it was similar to Lutheranism but from what I've seen of the service (only once though) and a post I read here about Lutheranism I seem to be wide of the mark. Although I don't know how much that person really knows!

Meanwhile, the Catholics are not as Catholic as they "should" be--apparently the bishops are elected rather than appointed by the Pope and there were some women ordained as priests a couple weeks ago.

NutstersChick

Mostly Christian.

SJK

there are a lot.
mmkay?
christian buddhist
catholic everything!!!!

milky kirby

christian

jonathan p

switzerland has no state religion, but the most popular religion in that country is roman catholicism.

Bethany[â™¥ BLD]

CHRISTIAN!!!!!!!

jljdc

Switzerland is divided into 26 cantons, whose borders often mark religious and linguistic areas. Most cantons were created with either a Protestant majority (like Geneva and Zurich) or a Catholic one (like Valais, Fribourg and Lucerne). Where two communities share the same territory, cantons are divided into half-cantons. For example, Basle City (Protestant) and Basle Country (Catholic). Mentalities vary greatly, according to factors such as religion, language and whether people live in town or the country. Thus, people from rural, Catholic, German- speaking cantons have a very different mentality from those living in Geneva.
Even though people are hard working, motivations for working and the general attitude toward life is not the same. Among the 30% of â€œauthenticâ€ Genevans in Geneva, what matters is money in the bank rather than indulging in spending. Parsimony, modesty and long term views are the rule and make Genevan businessmen a prosperous bunch. Apart from saving and investing, the Genevans will feel strongly obliged to give money to charities (of which thereâ€™s no lack in Geneva). This mentality is skillfully described in Albert Cohenâ€™s books (Solal, Belle du Seigneur).

In Catholic, rural areas, people are not inhibited at all to spend their money for expensive cars or Texas-sized houses, and feel a duty toward their family at large. Corporate paternalism and nepotism are seen as values. Family and quality of life tend to be rated higher than profit, especially when people have worked hard enough above basic needs to be wealthy by their communityâ€™s standards. Those who build corporate empires are seen as lacking common sense, and the point of piling up many times more money that one can use is not understood. These differences in Weltanschauung exist even among people who are not religious in the least.

Honesty is the rule among the Swiss, and for a very practical reason. The Swiss do not need to work themselves into an early grave to make a nice living, but one act of dishonesty can tarnish a reputation and make life much harder. The moral of self-interest can thus partly explain the scrupulous honesty of most Swiss.

The work ethic is strong throughout Switzerland, but the reasons for this vary. In Protestant cities like Zurich or Geneva, the driving force is morality, the conviction that only those who work hard will be redeemed (read Max Weber), whereas in rural and Catholic cantons, where poverty ruled only 50 years ago, working hard has always been the only way of surviving for the mountain peasants. Today, people are much better off, but the ethic of hard work remains strong.

Bob

http://switzerland.isyours.com/E/swiss-business-guide/religion.html

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