Denominational parity

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Denominational parity is the equal distribution of power between different denominational groups.

Germany and Switzerland

In Germany and Switzerland, after the Reformation, in some confessionally mixed areas, power was divided equally between Catholics and Protestants and anchored in contracts after the Thirty Years' War . Sometimes churches as simultaneous churches were used equally by two denominations at the same time.

Equal areas in Germany were mainly the four or six Swabian equal imperial cities , the bishopric Osnabrück and parts of Lusatia .

In Switzerland, denominational parity applied particularly in the cantons of Aargau , Glarus , Graubünden , St. Gallen and Thurgau . Simultaneous churches were predominantly located in the eastern Swiss cantons of St. Gallen and Thurgau; However, after new churches were built in the 19th and 20th centuries, these were converted into denominational churches almost everywhere.

Outside of Europe

For Lebanon , in the 1989 Taif Agreement , Muslims and Christians agreed on an equal distribution of power (in parliament ). Before that, the national pact had distributed power in a ratio of 6 to 5 to various Christian and Muslim groups. Since then Lebanon has been an equal state .

For domestic political reasons, religious parity is also officially proclaimed for Tanzania and Eritrea , but without power being shared equally between the religions.

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