Religion in Europe (194,000) which is home to Eastern Europe's largest Jewish community. During the Enlightenment, Deism became influential especially in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Biblical concepts were challenged by concepts such as a heliocentric universe and other scientific challenges to the Bible. Notable early deists include Voltaire and Kant . The trend towards secularism during the 20th and 21st centuries has a number of reasons, depending on the individual country: The trend towards secularism has been less pronounced in the traditionally Catholic countries of Mediterranean Europe. Greece as the only traditionally Eastern Orthodox country in Europe which has
The Witch-Cult in Western Europe The Witch-Cult in Western Europe The Witch-Cult in Western Europe is a 1921 anthropological book by Margaret Murray, published at the height of success of "The Golden Bough" by anthropologist James George Frazer. For the book, university circles celebrated Margaret Murray as the expert on western witchcraft. For the period 1929-1968, she wrote the "Witchcraft" article in the successive editions of the "Encyclopædia Britannica". In 1962, "The Witch-Cult in Western Europe" was reprinted by Oxford University Press. Her theory, also known as the "witch-cult hypothesis" suggests that the things told about witches in Europe were in fact based on a