protestantism

• A new museum in Geneva: The International Museum of the reformation highlights the 16th century movement that revolutionised Geneva's social and economic fabric and spread its religious message well beyond the confines of 'Protestant Rome.'.

..."Many of Protestantism's big ideas, like individual responsibility, have ...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2005, Janvier 2005

• Do you Maria, Masha, Mariko, Mandisa.

Swiss citizens marry foreigners at roughly double the rate for Germans or Austrians. There are many reasons why so many Swiss marry foreigners. One, foreigners comprise only 19% of the entire Swiss population. Two, the Swiss are wealthy enough to travel frequently to other lands and are exceptionally at ease with foreign languages. Three, there is a tendency among Swiss women to marry foreigners to help them from some dangerous situation in these foreigners' countries.

... about sexuality generated by Swiss Protestantism, you get a society in which we are afraid to flirt...

• Swiss News
• Num. 1999, Octobre 1999

• Escalade: celebrating Geneva's history: part commemoration of the victory that allowed Geneva to remain independent, part homage to the Genevois who died fighting off a Savoyard attack in 1602, the annual Escalade is also two days packed full of festive fun that transforms the city's Old Town.

... but in terms of reclaiming it from Protestantism--the Genevois had embraced the Reform in 1536. Gen...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2008, Avril 2008