Crypto-Protestantism is a historical phenomenon that first arose on the territory of the Habsburg monarchy, Habsburg Empire but also elsewhere in Europe and Latin America, at a time when Catholic rulers tried, after the Protestant Reformation, to reestablish Catholicism in parts of the Empire that had become Protestant after the Reformation. The Protestants in these areas strove to retain their own confession inwardly while they outwardly pretended to accept Catholicism.
[Žalta, Anja. 2004. Protestantizem in bukovništvo med koroškimi Slovenci. ''Anthropos'' 36(1/4): 1–23, p. 7.] With the Patent of Toleration in the Habsburg Empire in 1781, Protestantism was again permitted, and from that time on most Protestants could live their faith openly once more.
See also
*Nicodemite
*Crypto-Papism
*Crypto-Christianity
*Crypto-Calvinism
*Lutheranism#Counter-Reformation and controversies, Hundskirke stone
*Cafeteria Catholicism
*Zoë movement
*''Cum ex apostolatus officio'',
*Molinism
*Jansenism (sometimes labeled as Crypto-Calvinism)
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*Salzburg Protestants
*Transylvanian Landler
*Zillertal#History, Zillertal Valley expulsion
References
{{Intermediates between Catholicism and Protestantism
Protestant Reformation
Counter-Reformation