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  The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan | Details
Religious and philosophical beliefs, affiliations and sensibilities of the people of Saskatchewan have intersected in important ways throughout their history, and in many respects are key components of their identity.
An important component of religious or spiritual life in the province is reflected in the philosophical beliefs and practices of First Nations peoples, who prefer not to describe their traditions as “religions” because this would encourage non-Aboriginal peoples to consider their sacred ways as being a separate aspect of their lives.
The religious identity of some of these immigrant communities has become increasingly tied to particular ethnicities: a study of immigrant religious congregations in Regina and Saskatoon shows that religious institutions often serve a dual purpose for immigrants—providing them with a place to practice their beliefs and also to receive ethnic, cultural, and linguistic reinforcement.
esask.uregina.ca /entry/religion.html   (5005 words)

  
  Encyclopedia: 1760   (Site not responding. Last check: )
List of state leaders in 1759 - Events of 1760 - List of state leaders in 1761 - State leaders by year // Africa Ashanti Confederacy - Kusi Obodom, Asantehene (1750-1764) Dahomey - Tegbesu, King of Dahomey (1732-1774) Zulu - Ndaba kaMageba, King of the Zulu (1745-1763) Asia Afghanistan - Ahmad Shah, King of Afghanistan...
George II (George Augustus) (10 November 1683–25 October 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) and Archtreasurer and Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 until his death.
Categories: 1760 April 10 is the 100th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (101st in leap years).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1760   (2301 words)

  
 Cayman Observer
It would be a shame, in fact, almost tragic, were the Cayman Islands to employ such a fundamental document, designed to protect a population from tyranny and "unreasonable interference" with their private lives, to enshrine elements of fear or intolerance as the highest "law of the land".
Political leaders, even in the most repressive societies, purport to reflect the wishes of "their people".
Leader of Government Business Kurt Tibbetts has offered only a single remark on the subject of marriage, for example, saying he hoped to define it constitutionally as the union of a man and woman.
www.caymanobserver.com /viewarticle.cfm?id=1&Section=Commentary   (1150 words)

  
 Religion and the New Republic (Religion and the Founding of the American Republic, Library of Congress Exhibition)
The principal religious innovation produced by the Kentucky revivals was the camp meeting.
The religious revivals that swept the Kentucky camp meetings were so intense and created such gusts of emotion that their original sponsors, the Presbyterians, as well the Baptists, soon repudiated them.
In 1839 J. Maze Burbank exhibited at the Royal Society in London this watercolor of "a camp meeting, or religious revival in America, from a sketch taken on the spot." It is not known where, when, or under whose auspices the revival painted by Burbank occurred.
www.loc.gov /exhibits/religion/rel07.html   (2599 words)

  
 97.03.02: Women: Stride Toward Freedom
The thinkers of the age of reason questioned the established political and religious authority and stressed the importance of reason, equality, liberty, and women in the workplace as well as the political arena.
Leaders in the movement to improve woman’s lot included Sarah Margaret Fuller, one of the most learned women of the 1800’s; Lucretia Coffin Mott, a minister in the Society of Friends and promoter of many social and domestic reforms; Elizabeth Cady Stanton, one of the earliest women lawyers and founder of the suffragist movement.
Have the students select a book from the suggested reading list, or perhaps in their research one that they would like to read, and write a report on their reading as well as their opinion on the subject matter.
pclt.cis.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1997/3/97.03.02.x.html   (6549 words)

  
 Chowk: History: A Movement in Religious Nationalism: Jami’at-ul-Ulama-i-Hind
Had the JUH leaders been sincere in their introspection after Independence and restored their credibility by transforming their religious conservatism to a broader canvass of political democracy, Hindu-Muslim relation might not have socially deteriorated in last fifty-five years to the extent as we see today.
In fact the religious nationalism of JUH against the secular nationalism of Mahatma Gandhi and Nehru remained the main obstacle in the secular integration of Indian Muslims with the majority community.
Even leaders like Maulana Azad, and others, who were widely known as ’Nationalist Muslims’, did not make any sincere effort to build a secular political thought based on the ground realities as they were not prepared to make any change in the rigid and orthodox interpretation of Islam.
www.chowk.com /articles/6789   (3689 words)

  
 Essay on Shaker History -- Shaker Historic Trail -- National Register of Historic Places
With new scientific and religious interpretations opening up (the publishing of the Bible in various vernacular languages helped speed the process), the creation of new Christian Churches outside the Catholic Church and the mainstream Protestant denominations (the Lutheran Church, the Calvinists and Church of England) continued in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Ann Lee, the founder and later leader of the American Shakers, and her parents were members of this society.
Mother Ann Lee and the Early Shakers: Ann Lee, who became the charismatic leader of the Shakers, was born the daughter of a flsmith in the English city of Manchester in 1736.
www.nps.gov /history/nr/travel/shaker/shakers.htm   (2416 words)

  
 CVCO: Overbooked - Motivation Analysis
Religious concepts, such as a concept of God and our moral values would not be possible without symbolic thinking.
These leaders are often quite positive about the combative use of their religious status and power and vigorously attack those who do not share their beliefs and values.
However, most religious fundamentalists are less extreme and mostly inclined to use verbal or political attacks on their modernist enemies whereas terrorists use violent physical aggression in attempts to impose their will on entire cultures.
www.overbooked.org /symvalmotrel.html   (4261 words)

  
 Supreme Court of Canada - Decisions - R. v. Marshall
During the negotiations leading to the treaties of 1760-61, the aboriginal leaders asked for truckhouses “for the furnishing them with necessaries, in Exchange for their Peltry” in response to the Governor’s inquiry “Whether they were directed by their Tribes, to propose any other particulars to be Treated upon at this Time”.
In my view, the 1760 treaty does affirm the right of the Mi’kmaq people to continue to provide for their own sustenance by taking the products of their hunting, fishing and other gathering activities, and trading for what in 1760 was termed “necessaries”.
It was, after all, the aboriginal leaders who asked for truckhouses “for the furnishing them with necessaries, in Exchange for their Peltry” in response to the Governor’s inquiry “Whether they were directed by their Tribes, to propose any other particulars to be Treated upon at this Time”.
scc.lexum.umontreal.ca /en/1999/1999rcs3-456/1999rcs3-456.html   (11137 words)

  
 BRIEF HISTORY
The church and government are trying to unite their efforts in improving the ethical and moral foundation of the people and in solving people s day-to-day problems.
Religious literature is published in Russian as well as in the native languages spoken in Udmurtia.
The city was founded on April 10, 1760 on the bank of the Izh-river and initially was a workmen s settlement of the iron-works belonging to Count Shuvalov.
www.udm.ru /history.html   (3208 words)

  
 Anne Hutchinson: American Jezebel or Woman of Courage?   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Although Anne Hutchinson is historically documented to have been banished as a religious dissenter, the real motive for her persecution was that she challenged the traditional subordinate role of women in Puritan society by expressing her own religious convictions.
Whatever her motives, she was clearly a great leader in the cause of religious toleration in America and the advancement of women in society.
Anne was drawn by the excitement of this religious struggle and based her opinions on the study of the Bible.
cpcug.org /user/billb/hutch.html   (4663 words)

  
 Seacoast NH Black History - First Blacks Of Portsmouth Part 2
The known leaders of the Negro Court in Portsmouth were among nineteen slaves who submitted a petition to the state legislature in 1779 urging the release of all New Hampshire slaves from bondage and to officially end slavery in the state.
They appealed to the lawmakers' religious, moral and political sense of justice, but no legislative action was taken on the petition.
It was tabled, and the entire petition appeared in the newspaper with an editorial disclaimer noting that its publication was "for the amusement" of the newspaper's readers.
www.seacoastnh.com /blackhistory/blacks2.html   (1931 words)

  
 Guide Introduction: Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations–Series J:
In the census of 1860, William J. Minor was listed with 580 slaves in Ascension and Concordia Parishes, Louisiana, and 42 slaves in Mississippi.
Also included are lists of slaves, accounts of goods purchased, papers from the estate of Stephen Minor, a notebook with notes on grammar, and a fragment of a diary concerning an expedition to visit the Choctaw Indians on behalf of Spanish officials in Natchez.
Included are entries on the purchase of the plantation and lists of slaves and slave families at the plantation.
www.lexisnexis.com /academic/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantj6.asp   (18528 words)

  
 Native leaders, Ottawa search for solution in fisheries dispute
That ruling stated that according to a 1760 treaty, Mi'qmak and Maliseet bands are entitled to fish year round without licences.
The arbour was built by the Mi'kmaq in the summer on a sacred point of land used for religious prayer.
Mi'kmaq leaders say it was like a church for them and its destruction is a devastating blow to their spirits.
www.cbc.ca /canada/story/1999/10/06/fish_native991006.html   (1073 words)

  
 International Cooperative Information Center: Famous Co-op People through the Ages   (Site not responding. Last check: )
GJORES, Axel / Circa : 1920s-1950s (Sweden) A leader in co-ops, serving as Gen. Secretary of Kooperativa Forbundet (KF) and on Exec.
Leader of co-ops in Spain - appointed to Chair of Cooperation at School of Social Studies in Madrid; a member of Spanish Inst.
Beloved by all his colleagues in Congress, Senator Paul Douglas said, "I have seen the eyes of hardened politicians moisten at the mention of Jerry's name, and I believe he is truly one of the saints of the earth".
www.wisc.edu /uwcc/icic/def-hist/history/famous.html   (12991 words)

  
 Dissenters Readings
On top of that was a serious recession, and continuing agitation by religious dissenters to end the state's Congregational establishment of religion, supported by the Federalists,with a new constitution.
Republicans seized on these issues, particularly the issue of religious toleration, and tried to form a coalition of disaffected citizens who would support their candidates for the governorship and the legislature.
In 1814 and 1815, however, Federalist leaders of the state legislature blundered seriously by not passing an appropriation of funds which was important to the Episcopalians of the state.
www.connhistory.org /dissent_reading.htm   (2826 words)

  
 The Industrial Revolution - Impact
Following is a list of the various reforms implemented due to the social and working conditions in Britain.
A petition to Parliament was rejected in July of 1839, and most of the movement's leaders were arrested by the end of the year after the November clash between Chartists and the military at Newport, Wales.
Ironically, both were strongly associated with Sir Robert Peel before the split in the Tory party in the 1830s - afterwards, the two went their separate ways, eventually to dominate the post of Prime Minister during the late 19th century (Columbia Encyclopedia).
industrialrevolution.sea.ca /impact.html   (3415 words)

  
 CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Obama meets with religious leaders behind closed doors ...
Talk to the leaders and they will talk to their followers, because weather we like it or not, religion is HUGE in a lot of peoples lives.
If the religious leaders want to go to the press, its their business, it should not be because Obama made them to.
This shows he is a leader that engages in talks with different leaders and respects their wishes to speak candidly.
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com /2008/06/10/obama-meets-with-religious-leaders-behind-closed-doors   (10020 words)

  
 JewishEncyclopedia.com - BREST-LITOVSK
The leaders of the Lithuanian Jews seemed to be more occupied with religious laws and with the preservation of the inner life of their community than with general politics.
The collecting of taxes and the customs duties was leased to the secretary of the treasury of the grand duchy of Lithuania, who, in turn, sublet it for a term of two years to the Jew Getzko Meerovich ("Akty Wilenskoi Archivnoi Kommissii," vi.
From a list of the year 1662 of the Jewish merchants of Brest for the apportionment of subsidiary taxes instituted by the Diet of Warsaw it appears that the highest valuation of goods in the fifteen stores of the Jews of Brest was 650 florins; the lowest, 30 florins.
www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=1460&letter=B   (4107 words)

  
 Pietism
Originally a German Lutheran religious movement of the 17th and 18th centuries, pietism emphasized heartfelt religious devotion, ethical purity, charitable activity, and pastoral theology rather than sacramental or dogmatic precision.
Yet insofar as the heart of pietism was captive to the gospel, it remained a source of distinctly Christian renewal.
Religious movements resembling pietism were active beyond Germany in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
mb-soft.com /believe/txc/pietism.htm   (2131 words)

  
 Human Rights: 1815-1848 - Background
A complete list of all the supporting documents for the time periods between 1215 and 1945.
Although in early November 1830 the Tory leader Wellington declared against parliamentary reform, the Government was defeated a few weeks later.
This led to his resignation and the formation of a new administration under the Whig, Earl Grey.
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /humanrights/1815-1848/?hr-link=1815   (2088 words)

  
 The Dirt on il papi
Whoever refuses to 'bow the neck' and obey the church leaders is guilty of insubordination against the divine master himself...
The leader of the party that wanted to forgive apostasy (receive back into the church those who had lapsed because of the persecutions, and then repented).
Died suddenly, poisoned, probably by Baldassare Cossa, leader of the papal army raised and funded by the pope.
pw1.netcom.com /~wbaxter/archive/r_popes.html   (5864 words)

  
 United Islands of Georgeland - Constructed worlds
Discovered by Spanish explorer Juan Delmago in 1760, Georgeland was first settled by European settlers in 1781, when the British established their first colony.
The Prime Minister is the leader of the majority party in the House of Commons.
Roughly 75% of the country's population identified themselves as religious in the 2002 census.
conworld.wikia.com /wiki/Georgeland   (1582 words)

  
 www.fpcr.org: The Religious Observance of Christmas and 'Holy Days' in American Presbyterianism   (Site not responding. Last check: )
If, as it appears likely, the list on the one side of this paper consists of an unfinished enumeration of ‘customs or rites’ spoken of on the other, then it is probable the latter was drafted as a proposed, but not accepted, addition to the preface as it now stands.
To remember and religiously improve the incarnation of our divine Redeemer, to join the concert of angels, and dwell in ecstatic meditation upon their song; this is lawful, this is a seasonable duty every day; and consequently upon this day.
For a full generation after the Civil War the religious journals of the South mentioned Christmas only to observe that there was no reason to believe that Jesus was actually born on December 25; it was not recognized as a day of any religious significance in the Presbyterian Church.
www.fpcr.org /blue_banner_articles/americanxmas.htm   (9565 words)

  
 Woman Muslim Leaders throughout the Times
A member of the Quaish Tribe in the Kingdom of Kindah, she was one of the leaders of the opposition to Muhammed.
The daughter of the religious leader, Imam al-Zayel al-Nasir Li Din Allah, she and her tribe took San'a by force of arms in the mid 15th century.
She was the undisputed leader of the pirates in the western Mediterranean.
www.guide2womenleaders.com /Muslim_Leaders.htm   (7634 words)

  
 Blesok46, theatre theory - Sonja Zdravkova-Džeparoska: Interculturalism in Dance
The manner of integration of this type of material (which consists of different dance forms) into ballet and the approach to it have not been studied in detail, but it is evident that this tendency in European ballet continues.
In ballet, the belief that one’s own system of expression should be confronted with a dance concept that is dissimilar/different as the result of a different socio-geographic, religious and cultural context has a long-standing tradition.
The superficial knowledge of it and the general view of the society of the non-European states/territories influenced the way in which this type of dance material was used.
www.blesok.com.mk /tekst.asp?lang=eng&tekst=776   (3580 words)

  
 DIZIONARIO DELLA LINGUA ITALIANA DEI SEGNI - LIS - Deaf nationalism
In 1760, the Abbé met a pair of illiterate deaf girls in Paris, and decided to educate them in the rudiments of Christianity.
A memorial was erected in Paris in 1909, and he was canonised as "father of the deaf" and symbolic leader of the struggle for the survival of sign languages.
It never crossed his mind that these "methodical signs" could ever become a self-sufficient language; as far as he was concerned they were little more than a shorthand method of finger-spelling and their only function was to introduce deaf pupils to written French and thus to Christianity.
www.dizlis.it /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1678   (3825 words)

  
 Who Rules America: Studying Power
Some hints may be found in studies of small cultic groups, where the charismatic leader only gradually realizes just how much power he or she has as the group gradually becomes increasingly deferential and obedient.
So maybe it is just the interaction of leaders and led, in a context of common belief or purpose, that slowly convinces leaders that they are infallible and invincible.
If the followers are not faithfully bound to the leader by the dread of the outside enemy, then leaders can stay in power by favoring some followers and punishing others.
sociology.ucsc.edu /whorulesamerica/theory/studying_power.html   (3673 words)

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