Historical Prussia in the mirror of confessional relations

Abstract

This article develops the concept of historical process being determnined by cultural phenomena. The cultural aspect examined by the author is religious beliefs. It is shown that Prussia constituted a region of intersection between ancient Prussian paganism rooted in the proto-Indo-European era and Roman Catholic Church and Orthodoxy. The interaction of these forms of ideology is used to explain the history of Prussia.

Keywords

• history of culture
• religion
• ethnic group
• paganism
• christianity
• prussia
• lithuania