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And because religious liberty was finally won by a coalition of men like-minded in their attitude towards rights of conscience and in their desire for certain necessary changes and reforms in government, the final chapters must deal with social and political conditions more than with those purely religious.
Since in religious affairs strict conformity was required by the three Puritan colonies, and since the liberty accorded to the few early dissenters in Plymouth was not such as to modify her prevailing polity or worship, these first few years of voluntary assessment do not nullify the dominant truth of the preceding statement.
Religious contumacy was due to varying opinions as to what should be the rule of the churches and the privileges of their members.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext05/7rcon10.txt   (15650 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: 1716   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Johann Jakob Reiske (December 25, 1716- August 14, 1774), German scholar and physician, was born at Zorbig in Electoral Saxony.
Category: 1716 Jump to: navigation, search January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
Sir Stephen Fox (March 27, 1627 - October 28, 1716), English politician, was the son of William Fox, of Farley, in Wiltshire, a yeoman farmer.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1716   (2213 words)

  
 Responding to the Critics of Freemasonry
For example, some religious organizations have responded to the personal anguish of their members by circling the wagons, that is, by strictly defining theological concepts and insisting their members "purify" their fellowship by renouncing any other beliefs.
The leader of a lodge is called the Master of the lodge for the same reason the leader of an orchestra is called the Concert Master, or a highly skilled electrician is called a Master Electrician, or the leader of a Scout troop is called a Scoutmaster.
Religious discussion is forbidden in a masonic lodge thereby eliminating the chance for any masonic dogma to form.
members.aol.com /brlodge/critics.html   (3215 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Jansenius and Jansenism
The religious of Port-Royal were especially conspicuous for their obstinacy, and the Archbishop of Paris, after several fruitless admonitions, was forced to debar them from receiving the sacraments.
When it was proposed to the religious that they should accept the new Bull, they would consent only with this clause: "that it was without derogating from what had taken place in regard to them at the time of the peace of the Church under Clement XI".
Their example was followed by some of their colleagues, by hundreds of clerics and religious, by the Parlements and the magistracy Noailles, for a long time undecided and always inconsistent, ended by appealing also, but "from the pope obviously mistaken to the pope better informed and to a general council".
www.newadvent.org /cathen/08285a.htm   (9104 words)

  
 IBSS - News - Religious
Religious activists say Massachusetts decision is monumental—and may be cause for revolt.
This weekend, leaders of seven like-minded but distinct national groups will participate in the Minnesota Atheists Conference, which organizers say will be an unprecedented gathering of freethinkers of various persuasions (Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.).
Moreover, church leaders, including founder Joseph Smith, taught that Lamanites are the ancestors of native Americans.
www.bibleandscience.com /news/2003/religious.htm   (9130 words)

  
 Eastern Patriarchates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
In 544, Jacob Baradaeus (a Monophysite leader) consecrated Sergius of Tella as Patriarch in opposition to the Imperial-backed Orthodox candidate.
For a listing of the leaders of the Armenian Church, an ecclesiastic organization similar in many ways to Orthodoxy, go to the Caucasus.
During the ascendancy of the Mongols, many notable leaders, including Hulegu (the first Ilkhan), belonged to this church, and though reliable statistics are not available, it is likely that this church, whose remnants today number at most a few million, boasted the largest population of any Christian denomination.
www.hostkingdom.net /orthodox.html   (1948 words)

  
 Issue #1: Puritanism, Spiritualism, and Quakerism
In Puritanism what religiously and theologically springs from concentration on the doctrine and experience of the Holy Spirit may be seen more philosophically or psychologically as a concern with immediacy, as an insistence on the non-necessity of a vehiculum or medium.
Mountains of dispute over religious experience, means of grace, the nature of worship, and doctrine, in which protagonists ­ as in the case of Quakers and Puritans ­ see themselves often engaged against mortal enemies denying the central tenets of their faith, are seen as involving simply "feuding, rather than kissing, cousins."
When such a spotlight is trained on the spectrum of religious expression in seventeenth-century England and America, it becomes immediately apparent that the creed, cult and code, and community of Puritans, on the one hand, and Quakers and Spiritualists on the other, were markedly different.
quest.quaker.org /issue1-2.html   (5739 words)

  
 Nottingham, Daniel Finch on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Holding that religious penalties for dissenters detracted from the integrity of the Anglican church, he pressed for the Toleration Act (1689).
In 1711, Nottingham made a bargain with the Whig leaders to oppose Tory proposals for peace in the War of the Spanish Succession in return for their support of his bill against occasional conformity.
President of the council on the accession (1714) of George I, he retired in 1716 because he opposed the severe treatment meted out to some of the Jacobite rebels of 1715.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/N/NottingD1F1.asp   (370 words)

  
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A Leadership Failure Seminar leaders stated that today's crisis in American cultural and political institutions is a direct result of a variety of "gatekeepers"--educators, politicians, journalists and moderate Christians leaders--who have lost touch with bedrock principles contained in the Bible.
The religious right is well aware of the opportunities for influence on these boards, and their members are active in volunteering.
The religious right groups and their sympathizers are making gains in Colorado Springs not because they represent the majority view (see page 3), but because they are becoming organized and active.
www.qrd.org /qrd/usa/colorado/1993/citizens.project-12.92   (8678 words)

  
 The Builder Magazine - July 1927
The religious wars in France have been described as being, in reality, the last great armed struggle of the feudal nobility against the growing power and absolutism of the Crown, while the same feudal tendency can be seen in the rising of the Catholic earls of the North against Elizabeth in 1569.
Popes had ceased to be religious leaders and become statesmen, "bishops," it has aptly been said, "had become barons in mitres." And as a result innumerable abuses had crept into the ecclesiastical system.
Religious indifferentism and anti-Christian socialism was the chief menace confronting the Roman Church, and the rest of Christianity as well.
www.phoenixmasonry.org /the_builder_1927_july.htm   (12228 words)

  
 Barbara Eby   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Religious History begins on Page 6 "The Protestant Reformation can be summarized as a movement away from Rome and a return to the true interpretation of the scriptures.
Almost all of the existing Eby histories maintain that the Eby family was active in the religious history of the Canton of Zurich, but an examination of actual court proceedings and Anabaptist lists does not list the name Eby once.
He was the father of Hannes and Peter Eby on this list and probably a brother to the Jacob Eby on the Sinsheim list.
www.ocii.com /~fisher/neff/aebi.htm   (5623 words)

  
 The U.S. Army Professional Writing Collection
On 26 March, expatriate Ansar leader Mullah Krekar told Dutch television that Ansar suicide commandos would attack U.S. troops, a claim that had to be taken seriously given the Ansar attacks in Kurdistan.
Iraqi leaders claimed this was the beginning of a "routine military policy," and the attacker, junior army officer Ali Hammadi al-Namani, was posthumously awarded two medals by Saddam Hussein.
In early February 2004 Islamist leaders were proclaiming that martyrdom operations were a religious obligation in Palestine and Iraq.
www.army.mil /professionalwriting/volumes/volume3/april_2005/4_05_3.html   (7095 words)

  
 The Builder Magazine - December 1928
Disgusted with dogmas and denominationalism, thousands have sought some sort of religious solace in these mystical societies of various classes and kinds, some of which, of course, are quite commendable.
Following the introductory title in which this statement occurs, is a list of the members of the lodge with their marks.
In a list before me of "Clerks of the Aberdeen Lodge," but which unfortunately only commences in 1709, the first name on the roll is that of J. Anderson, which is repeated year by year till 1725.
www.phoenixmasonry.org /the_builder_1928_december.htm   (11214 words)

  
 Part 1
Religious conflicts between Catholics and Protestants stemming from the sixteenth century convulsed the seventeenth.
All religious groups would be tolerated and expected to share the same civil society.
The first problem was to master the language so that they could communicate directly with the native peoples and learn their religious beliefs.
www.geocities.com /RainForest/Vines/6480/inigoes1.html   (22774 words)

  
 AmericanHeritage.com / Magazine
In 1716 sheep were afflicted with a destructive disease; severe frosts throughout the decade discouraged farmers; a smallpox epidemic scourged Ulster.
In 1738 the royal governor of Virginia and the Tidewater planters actively sought to persuade newcomers to the Pennsylvania frontier to leave that crowded region and settle in the Shenandoah Valley.
The distinctive religious influence of the Scotch-Irish and New Englanders was not in their common Calvinism, though certainly Calvinist theology has had its effect upon America: it was rather in persuading millions of Americans that religion and character are synonyms.
www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1970/1/1970_1_28.shtml   (4704 words)

  
 Smith Ahnantafel Tables and Family Group Sheets
Charles Moore is consistently listed as a roller trimmer and seemed to consistently be employed, unlike the impression hs death certificate gives that he was a "self employed roller trimmer".
They organized and founded the Quaker meeting there; had it meet in their home, donated the land and much of the money, and were leaders of the meeting, as were some of their children.
He married again, listed as a "widower", Maria Elisabeth Gottschall, the widow of Nicholas Gottschall and daughter of the late John Jacob Nuss, records of Rev. Krugg, probably in Reading, on 2 Apr 1771.
www.geocities.com /Heartland/Acres/5127/fathersfam/smittafl.html   (6743 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Imperial Spain 1469-1716 (Penguin History): Books: J.H. Elliott   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Although to a large degree an absentee monarch, his reign is characterized by his attempts to expand his empire--which embraced a substantial portion of Europe--and his wars against against heresy, i.e., protestantism, whether in its Lutheran, Calvinist, or English forms.
Indeed, if religious zeal--even if profoundly misguided--were a criterion of religiousity, then Charles V might go down as the most religious monarch in European history.
Since we seem unable to avoid foreign wars, our education system is inadequate, we are facing a rising tide of religious obscurantism, and worst of all, we operate at a huge deficit, there are some disturbing parallels.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140135170?v=glance   (1911 words)

  
 Greater India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Anjuvannam was created by a grant from Bhaskara Ravivarman II, the Chera Emperor of Kerala, to Joseph Rabban, the leader of the exceedingly ancient Malabari Jewish community.
The following list details the Governors-General of the Company, a position of supreme authority over the three Indian Presidencies created in 1773 by the Regulating Act, the first movement by Britain to rope in "John Company".
This district, noted for it's pugnacious warriors, produced the leaders who reunified Nepal after the era of Malla fragmentation, and is also the source of Great Britain's famed Gurkha mercenary corps.
www.hostkingdom.net /india.html   (2722 words)

  
 The Davis Family of Oxford, Massachusetts
The church was founded and largely led by members of the extended Davis family, some two dozen siblings and first cousins, all grandchildren of Samuel Davis of Roxbury, Massachusetts (1681-1760) who settled in Oxford in 1729.
Among the lay leaders of the church were Samuel Davis Jr., his younger brother Elijah, his older sister Deborah, and her husband and first cousin, Ebenezer Davis.
Samuel Davis and other Universalists offered to pay their share of the debt if the town would in future exempt them from the parish tax and let them have a proportional share in the use of the meetinghouse.
www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/davisfamily.html   (1595 words)

  
 Sikh Missionary Society(U.K.) - Articles - Sikh Martyrs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
This organized movement, which rejected the oppression of the people through political, social or religious authority, was not to the liking of the rulers or the Hindu religious leaders.
When the state adopted violent methods to finish this movement of religious and human rights, the Sikhs were forced to defend themselves with the sword.
The older two gave their lives at Chamkaur defending religious freedom and human rights, while the younger two were murdered by the Nawab of Sirhind.
www.gurmat.info /sms/smsarticles/sikhmartyrs   (844 words)

  
 Popes & Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Alexandria, Antioch, etc.
The lists of all the Archbishops of Mainz, Trier, and Cologne are taken from the Regentenlisten und Stammtafeln zur Geschichte Europas, by Michael F. Feldkamp [Philipp Reclam, Stuttgart, 2002, pp.
Although the list of Bishops of Byzantium is given from the early days of the Church, this was not a particularly important city at the time, and one wonders about its historicity even more than with the early Bishops given for Rome.
Since the Emperor was present in the City, and religious issues were political issues that concerned the Emperor and the populace, many Patriarchs were deposed in doctrinal, jurisdictional, and purely political disputes, sometimes even to be reinstated.
www.friesian.com /popes.htm   (8673 words)

  
 The Basic Beliefs of Confucianism--Ummah.comComparative Religion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Confucianism is an ancient Chinese religion named after the well-known philosopher, Confucius, who appeared in the sixth century B.C. He called for the revival of religious values and traditions, which the Chinese had inherited from their forefathers.
Finally, he resorted to his province, Lu, where he devoted most of his time to teaching his friends and summarizing books of the ancients, which he would explain to the people.
He died in 479B.C. at the age of 73 leaving a formal, popular religious attitude, which remained dominant in that region until the middle of the twentieth century.
www.ummah.net /forum/showthread.php?t=33039   (1015 words)

  
 Scientology --- Bush & Skull and Bones: The Racist Nightmare at Yale
Geronimo, an Apache faction leader and warrior, led a party of warriors on a raid in 1876, after Apaches were moved to the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona territory.
Around the fall of 1983, the leader of an Apache group in another section of Arizona said he was interested in having the remains of Geronimo returned to his tribe's custody.
It is a tradition which has operated powerfully on the emotions and judgment of the leaders of Yale University; they have merged their own identities into this tradition.
www.holysmoke.org /cos/skul-and-bones.htm   (7108 words)

  
 Schiller Institute -Pedagogy - Gauss's Fundamental Theorem of A;gebra
It is only from that historian's standpoint, tracing all of European civilization from its birth by the hands of an Egyptian mid-wife, that the roots of the mortal internal threat to the U.S.A. and other parts of global civilization, can be efficiently identified, and remedied.
Classical Greek civilization was the highest level of culture achieved in the region of the Mediterranean, out of what Plato reports as the original birth of Athens, until the adoption of that wonderful legacy by the Fifteenth-Century Renaissance of such leaders as the founder of modern experimental physical science, Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa.
The present, utopian schemes for eliminating the sovereign nation-state, in favor of a Romantic world-government, are typical of the fruits of the Sixteenth-Century obscurantist reaction organized by Venice with aid of Habsburg arms.
www.schillerinstitute.org /educ/pedagogy/gauss_fund_bmd0402.html   (3122 words)

  
 Biographical Dictionary of Women and Pro-Feminists Men Mentioned on the Matilda Joslyn Gage Website
When she ascended to the throne, England was torn by religious strife, was economically insecure, and was involved in a disastrous war with France.
Religious tolerance was only one of the many achievements of her reign.
A charismatic 17th century Massachusetts religious teacher who spoke to women, and later men, in the privacy of her own home about the local minister's weekly sermons and about her own conception of each individual's inner light, Hutchinson was considered disruptive to the community for her unorthodox teachings; she was banished in 1637.
www.buschinc.com /~sunshine/gage/features/dict.html   (16700 words)

  
 Master List of Finding Aids in Manuscript and like Collections in the Princeton University Library
Master list is in two parts A to LM to Z
The materials document the growth and development of the oldest literary and debating society in the United States, from its inception from the remnants of the Plain Dealing Club in 1769, through its rivalry with the other campus literary organization, the Cliosophic Society, to its final merger with Clio in 1941.
In addition, there is a package of material containing an account book (1860) listing the expenses of the Boys' School in Plovdiv which later was incorporated into the American College of Sofia, and a chronological account of Black's life by his son, Cyril E. Black.
libweb2.princeton.edu /rbsc2/aids/msslist/colls1.htm   (14139 words)

  
 Louis Jolyon West
He battled actively and ceaselessly for individual freedom and dignity, opposing prejudice, bias, bigotry, violence, torture, and the subjugation, punishment and mistreatment of others by governments, the judiciary, the military, kidnappers, cult, leaders, and phony prophets.
He took the side of the poor, minorities, children, the disenfranchised, the mentally ill, the ignorant and the weak.
The fact that a person’s name or group appears on our website does not necessarily mean they are a destructive mind control cult.
www.freedomofmind.com /stevehassan/presskit/reviews/in_memoriam.htm?FACTNet   (895 words)

  
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This is listed for 11850, 0100-0400 to India.
Marcel Khalife, a Lebanese musician, is the contemporary leader of the engaged school.
Another area James could have highlighted was that both shortwave and local rebroadcasting of international broadcasting require the user to pay attention to occasionally inconvenient broadcaster schedules, and on-demand programming doesn't carry this disadvantage.
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