Evangelicalism Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Switzerland==== {{further|Protestantism in Switzerland}} Since the 1970s, the number of Evangelicals and Evangelical congregations has grown strongly in Switzerland. Population censuses suggest that these congregations saw the number of their members triple from 1970 to 2000, qualified as a "spectacular development" by specialists.<ref>Bovay Claude & Broquet Raphaël. 2004. "Le paysage religieux en Suisse". Neuchâtel: Office Fédéral de la Statistique. https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/fr/home/statistiques/catalogues-banques-donnees/publications.assetdetail.341772.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220215084332/https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/fr/home/statistiques/catalogues-banques-donnees/publications.assetdetail.341772.html |date=February 15, 2022}}.</ref> Sociologists [[Jörg Stolz]] and Olivier Favre show that the growth is due to charismatic and Pentecostal groups, while classical evangelical groups are stable and fundamentalist groups are in decline.<ref>Stolz Jörg & Favre Olivier. 2019. Growth and Decline of Evangelicals, Fundamentalists, Pentecostals, and Charismatics in Switzerland 1970–2013. Journal for the scientific study of religion, 58: 604–625, https://doi.org/10.1111/jssr.12616.</ref> A quantitative national census on religious congregations reveals the important diversity of evangelicalism in Switzerland.<ref>Monnot Christophe & Stolz Jörg. 2014. The Diversity of Religious Diversity. Using Census and NCS Methodology in Order to Map and Assess the Religious Diversity of a Whole Country. In: Giordan G., Pace E. (eds) Religious Pluralism. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06623-3_6 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221230132053/https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-06623-3_6 |date=December 30, 2022}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page