Christianities of Andalusada

"Christianity" is a pretty broad-stroke thing. In America, because we're used to thinking of it in this way, we define it in terms of Catholics and various denominations of Protestants. In Europe, it's defined in terms of national churches and such.

But broken down into its most basic taxonomy, the overwhelming majority of Christianity can be partitioned into some point of this taxonomy, arranged in roughly chronological order. Branches (or sub-branches) written in boldface represent churches that have historically claimed some degree of exclusivity in the past:

• Assyrian Church of the East
• Oriental Orthodox communion
• Coptic canonical tradition
• Ethiopian canonical tradition
• Eastern Orthodox communion
• Greek canonical tradition
• Slavonic canonical tradition
• (cf. Russian Orthodox) Old Believers
• Roman Catholic communion
• Roman Catholic Church
• Uniate churches
• Protestantism
• Lutheranism 
• Calvinism
• Presbyterian tradition
• Congregational tradition
• Baptist tradition
• Anabaptist tradition (arguably separate from Protestantism)
• Anglican Communion (arguably a Protestant tradition)
• Methodist tradition
• Holiness tradition
• Pentecostal tradition

This is, obviously, a very reduced taxonomy. It isn't counting in the tangle of loyalties caused by the Eastern Catholic tradition, for instance, or the hairsplitting that's come out of Protestantism. It also isn't counting in the extinct branches, or the subtle liturgical differences between canons.

The Christianities of Andalusada

There needs to be something like that for Andalusada, and this is it. Following the formatting of the lists above, boldface indicates a claim to exclusivity; indentation indicates a branch of a tradition, listed in roughly chronological order.

It bears mentioning that while Andalusada is rather laid back about things (for instance, Moorish civilization - which includes a fair swathe of the Western Hemisphere that we'd call "Western" - handles race rather differently than we do), theological niceties aren't one of them. The taxonomy of Christianities that follows is how they'd describe things in their own words, and is right on par with IRL 1930 in terms of cultural sensitivity:

• "Nestorian" churches
• "Monophysite" churches
• Ethiopian canonical tradition
• Coptic tradition
• Armenian Church
• Levantine Orthodoxy: What we'd call "Eastern Orthodox" IRL. (Since they haven't counted the Russian Orthodox Church among their number since the mid-1600s, these churches are overwhelmingly based around the Mediterranean, whence the name.)
• Pentarchy/Byzantine tradition
• Slavonic tradition
• Russian Orthodox Church: At one point, the Russian Orthodox communion was part of what's now called "Levantine Orthodoxy." This came to an abrupt end after the Eugenian Calendar was promulgated, and since the ROC is now bigger than the rest of the Orthodox churches combined, it gets the honor of being in a class of its own.
• Old Calendarists
• Russian Farrellites
  
• Korean Orthodox Church
• "Tsarist" churches
• "Vechist" churches
• [old Calendarists in union with Constantinople]
• Roman Catholic Church: Self-explanatory.
• Mozarabic Rite tradition
• Waldensians (extinct as a non-Farrellite movement)
• Güntheritism
• Pomeranian tradition
• Scandinavian tradition
• Scottish tradition
• Farrellitism
• Waldensian Farrellitism
• dynastic Farrellitism
• [various Uniate churches]
• Church of Hungary: Catholics are sure it isn't Catholic, Orthodox are sure it isn't Orthodox, and it's ambivalent itself, so the Church of Hungary gets the honor of its own category.
• Taiping Christianity (not usually counted, and usually considered neo-Farrellite, but distinct)

If this seems redundant, it is. But it's a way to organize subtle distinctions in some things, like so...

• The Russian Orthodox Church (about which more later) is the equivalent of the Anglican Communion IRL, or the Hungarian Church in Andalusada: not, properly speaking, in communion with anybody. (This is extremely important for the sake of politics in Great Russia.)
• The Hungarian Church (first alluded to when I introduced Constantine II) is a breakaway Uniate church.

Having this stuff outlined, I think, makes it a bit easier to explain what's going on in the world's church politics.