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  Religious Movements Homepage: Gordon Melton on New Age
The average New Religious Movement had come into the West from other parts of the world, existed as a discrete entity with very visible boundaries, and primarily recruited young adults in the 18-25 age group.
As a whole, New Religions are small relatively new religious organizations distinguished by their intrusion into a dominant religious community from which they make significant dissent.
In recent centuries, the religious history of the West has been dominated by the study of the Christian movement, its rise to dominance and its contribution in building the culture of Europe and North America.
religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/newage.html   (8327 words)

  
 Religion in 18th-Century America (Religion and the Founding of the American Republic, Library of Congress Exhibition)
According to one expert, religion was in the "ascension rather than the declension"; another sees a "rising vitality in religious life" from 1700 onward; a third finds religion in many parts of the colonies in a state of "feverish growth." Figures on church attendance and church formation support these opinions.
In America, the Awakening signaled the advent of an encompassing evangelicalism--the belief that the essence of religious experience was the "new birth," inspired by the preaching of the Word.
Another religious movement that was the antithesis of evangelicalism made its appearance in the eighteenth century.
www.loc.gov /exhibits/religion/rel02.html   (3192 words)

  
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Bloody Sunday of 1920 was a day of violence in Dublin on November 21, 1920, during the Irish War of Independence (1919–1921), which led to the deaths of more than 30 people.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia   (3543 words)

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