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  List of state leaders in 1961 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Diosdado Macapagal, President of the Philippines (1961 - 1965)
Communist Party Leader - Walter Ulbricht, General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (1950-1971)
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli, Provisional President of Brazil (1961)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_state_leaders_in_1961   (997 words)

  
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Cleopatra: (69-30 BCE) Queen of ancient Egypt, she was the last ruler in the dynasty founded by Ptolemy I. Jesus Christ: (1st century) Believed by Christians to be the divine Son of God.
Known as a successful military leader, he was victorious over the Christian powers in the Mediterranean region and in Central Europe.
Leader of the Al-Qaeda the terrorist organization responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
www.list.org /~mdoyle/people.html   (1543 words)

  
 Bangladesh
Religious organizations are not required to register with the Government; however, all nongovernmental organizations (NGO's), including religious organizations, are required to register with the NGO Affairs Bureau if they receive foreign financial assistance for social development projects.
There are no financial penalties imposed on the basis of religious beliefs; however, religious minorities are disadvantaged in practice in such areas as access to jobs in government or the military, and political office.
Ahmadi leaders report that their mosque remains under the control of local police, and Ahmadis are unable to worship there more than 2 years after the original attack.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2001/index.cfm?docid=5556   (2242 words)

  
 Female Presidential Candidates from 2000
But she withdrew from the race before the list of candidates was screened by the Council of Guardians.
A veteran freedom fighter and leader of the Rani Jhansi regiment of Subhash Chandra Bose's Indian National Army and feminist she was nominated by the leftwing parties.
Leader of he Party for Progress and Concordis and a former member of the Transitional National Assembly, and withdrew before the elections.
www.guide2womenleaders.com /candidates2000.htm   (2168 words)

  
 Religious Movements Homepage: Unitarian Universalists Association
Since the Religious Movements Homepage seeks to promote religious tolerance and appreciation of the positive benefits of pluralism and religious diversity in human cultures, we encourage the use of alternative concepts that do not carry implicit negative stereotypes.
Michael Servetus, born in 1511 in Spain, became a martyr for his religious beliefs in 1553, at a time when liberal Christianity was considered heresy and punishable by death.
There is a list of bibliographies given at the bottom of the page for further research on the history of the UUA as well as a list of links to other important sites.
religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/uua.html   (3134 words)

  
 Religious Freedoms - Article: Brainwashing And Elizabeth Smart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
This is the phenomenon that needs explanation, and the occurrence of another instance of the phenomenon as in the Elizabeth Smart situation does not provide evidence for any particular attempt to provide a scientific explanation of the phenomenon, it is merely another instance of it.
The conversions to anticult ideology and biographical reconstruction arguably help ex-members of totalistic religious or political movements such as Hearst to reconceive their past in such a way that they evade responsibility for their former participation in unconventional institutions and activities.
There is a substantial body of methodologically sound research conducted by Stuart Wright, Trudy Solomon, Marc Galanter, and other nrm scholars, which tends to show that ex-members of nrms who subsequently participate in the anticult movement and convert to anticult ideology view their former conversions to nrms as having been involuntary and harmful.
www.religiousfreedoms.org /articles/article_brainwashing_elizabeth_smart.htm   (2682 words)

  
 1961   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
1961 (As MAD Magazine pointed out on its first cover the year) was the first "upside-down" year i.
November 29 - Mercury program : Mercury-Atlas 5 is launched with Enos the chimp (the spacecraft orbited the Earth twice and splashed-down off the coast Puerto Rico).
December 2 - Cold War : In a nationally broadcast speech Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist - Leninist and that Cuba was going to Communism.
www.freeglossary.com /1961   (1792 words)

  
 NCC Analysis of International Religious Freedom Act of 1998
There would also be an "automatic" denial of visas to the leaders of nations found to be "gross violators" of religious freedom unless the Secretary of State found a "compelling" reason to override the denial.
The bill does other things to promote religious liberty such as providing for religious freedom awards, beefing up international broadcasting on the subject of religious liberty and providing equal access to U.S. embassies and missions for religious activities, but the heart of the bill is the list of sanctions set forth in Section 405.
If a nation is found by the Commission to be a violator of religious liberty (and many will be in light of the bill's broad definition of religious persecution), the President must choose from a list of 8 possible responses ranging from a private demarche to a public condemnation to the cancellation of state visits.
www.ncccusa.org /assembly/irfa.html   (738 words)

  
 Universalist leaders
Raised in a Universalist household, their political and religious views were liberal and reformist.
Afterwards, she became a leader of the woman suffrage and temperance movements, and a popular lecturer on social reform.
She was the only missionary sent to Scotland by the Universalist Church, and in 1880 the first woman to be ordained as a minister in the United Kingdom.
www.bright.net /~wbehee/UniversalistLeaders.htm   (3630 words)

  
 Controversial items in the Baha'i faith
The "Talisman" mailing list was closed down in 1996-MAY, after several of its prominent academic posters were investigated at the orders of the Baha'i World Center in Haifa, Israel.
Typically, the leaders of the splinter group follow most of the beliefs and practices of their religion of origin.
The new Talisman list is: talisman9@egroups.com at www.egroups.com.
www.religioustolerance.org /bahai5.htm   (1165 words)

  
 Cult Survivors Handbook
According to Jung (and Otto), this religious experience is the essence of holiness, which is felt as inexpressible, irreducible and undeniable.
Ignoring the call of the numinosum, a dogmatic religious practitioner may feel that the only "safe" symbols are those that have been officially approved by their church.
Most people are accustomed to accepting prescribed religious imagery and may be unaware that a deep religious experience could arise within their own personal experiences.
surrealist.org /writing/handbook3.html   (4853 words)

  
 Report on Religious Freedom in China
This was an unprecedented opportunity, not to meet with religious leaders, but religious leaders from the United States meeting with the top government officials of China to express concern, and to say that the Wolf-Specter bill had been introduced in Congress and looked as if it would pass overwhelmingly.
The mission of this delegation was to deepen the dialogue between the United States and China on religious policy and practice in a spirit of integrity and mutual respect.
This was the first time 1) that religious leaders had met with that level of government leader in China and 2) that Jiang Zemin in his own press conference following our talk shared that the issue of religious freedom, freedom of conscience, was on the agenda for diplomatic discourse with the United States.
www.religiousfreedom.com /Conference/japan/Argue.htm   (3740 words)

  
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Some parties choose their lists via a primary system, with party members directly voting for their choices for Knesset candidates.
The elections to the second (1951), fifth (1961), tenth (1981), eleventh (1984), thirteenth (1992), fourteenth (1996), fifteenth (1999) and seventeenth (2006) Knessets were all held before the due date by a Knesset vote to dissolve the government.
Peretz was born in Morocco, came to Israel at age four and became a Knesset member in 1988 after serving as mayor of the southern border town of Sderot.
www.adl.org /main_Israel/israel_primer2006.htm   (1529 words)

  
 homepage\geopolitical issues
This religious movement, Gush Emunim (Bloc of the Faithful) believed that they were fulfilling a religious commandment and that the salvation of Israel was in the creation of Ertez Israel (Greater Israel).
Known as Oslo I, these accords were signed on the White House lawn in Washington D.C. on September 13, 1993 and resulted in a handshake between Yassir Arafat, leader of the PLO and the Israeli prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin.
The ring leaders were hanged and tribal chiefs were allowed to register tribal lands as personal possession, and were welcomed into the Iranian ruling elite, in return for making sure their tribes obeyed the government.
www.list.org /~mdoyle/issues.html   (11085 words)

  
 National Recording Registry - National Recording Preservation Board (Library of Congress)
Note: this is a national list and many of the items listed are housed in collections across the country.
Duke Ellington is considered one of the greatest composers and band leaders of the 20th century.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe, considered to be one of the greatest gospel singers of her generation, merged blues and jazz into her performances and influenced many gospel, jazz and rock artists.
www.loc.gov /rr/record/nrpb/nrpb-masterlist.html   (10903 words)

  
 Charge to Religious Educators
Then I generally draw a third circle on the flboard and ask these leaders which of all the agencies in the Church that make the most immediate and most important contribution to eternal marriage as an intermediate goal to eternal life--our final goal--will best fill this circle.
But unfortunately there have been a few, and thankfully only a few, who are struggling to try to overcome some of the false notions that are put into their minds by teachers who didn't have faith.
To be an effective leader or teacher one must show love and actually feel love for the person he is trying to instruct.
www.byu.edu /fc/ee/w_charge.htm   (5743 words)

  
 Judaism Reading List: Chasidism (Pt. VIII)
A list of links to these may be found in the [7]sources section of the [8]General Reading List (if you are reading this at [9]www.scjfaq.org, you can simply click on the "Sources" button in the header navigation bar).
The mingling of religious concerns with daily life is described engagingly, especially the multiple effects of strictness about kashrut (175-212).
This original list has been augmented based on bibliographic research done by D. Faigin at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles, as well as contributions from readers of s.c.j, mail.jewish, and mail.liberal-judaism.
www.cs.uu.nl /wais/html/na-dir/judaism/reading-lists/chasidism.html   (3752 words)

  
 Judaism Reading List: Conservative Judaism (Pt. V)
A list of links to these may be found in the [23]sources section of the [24]General Reading List (if you are reading this at [25]www.scjfaq.org, you can simply click on the "Sources" button in the header navigation bar).
It is more than a list of do's and don'ts: Each chapter discusses the philosophy, history and the reasons why these laws and customs came to be.
Subject: Credits This list is based on a reading list I developed from research at the University of Judaism in January of 1993.
www.faqs.org /faqs/judaism/reading-lists/conservative   (4397 words)

  
 Religious Movements Homepage: Gnosticism
It is a mixing of rites and myths from a variety of religious traditions, combining Occultism, Oriental Mysticism, astrology, magic, elements from Jewish tradition, Christian views of redemption, and even aspects of Plato's doctrine that man is not at home in the bodily realm (McManners: 26).
Valentinus and another strong Gnostic leader, Marcion, were the most feared by the Catholic church (Crim: 278 and Rudolph: 296).
Mani, the leader of the Manicheaists, also did not believe in the drinking of wine, the blood of Christ, because he saw it as an invention of the devil.
religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/gnosticism.html   (2169 words)

  
 1961 Article, 1961 Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
1961 (As MAD Magazine pointed out on its firstcover for the year) was the first "upside-down" year - i.
November 29 - Mercury program : Mercury-Atlas 5 is launchedwith Enos the chimp aboard(the spacecraft orbited the Earth twiceand splashed-down off the coast of Puerto Rico).
December 2 - Cold War : In anationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist - Leninist and that Cuba was going to adopt Communism.
www.anoca.org /january/february/1961.html   (1356 words)

  
 Research by Subject: Religious Studies
Contains lengthy essays organized by topic and theme that explore religion and religious movements in America and their broader impact on culture and society.
A comprehensive listing of books and articles on African American religious studies, with appendices of related serials and periodicals and manuscript collections.
The New Acquisitions List (residing on the Library Catalogs page) is generated on the 10th of each month and includes items added to the library's collections for the previous calendar month.
www.union.edu /Library/research/subject_rel.htm   (2202 words)

  
 DSU - TR Honors Leadership Program
Christianity and Social Progress (Mater Et Magistra) (16 May 1961) The pope says "though the Church's first care must be for souls, she concerns herself too with the exigencies of man's daily life, with his livelihood and education, and his general, temporal welfare and prosperity";
She was elected leader of the Conservative Party and thus leader of the opposition on February 1975.
When she became a party leader, the Economist, later one of her warmest admirers, declared that the Conservatives could be condemning themselves to years in the political wilderness.
www.dsu.nodak.edu /TR_about_leaders2.asp   (7290 words)

  
 SULAIR: Religious Studies Collections
Scholar of religious history and chairman of the Dept. of Religious Studies, Stanford University, from1973 to 1980.
He served as chairman of the new American Studies Program (1975-1980) and was a leader in the improvement of graduate and undergraduate programs in the humanities.
Contents notes: Includes correspondence between various leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, correspondence with other personalities of the Russian emigration, and his own lectures and writings.
www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/hasrg/religious/archive.html   (845 words)

  
 The Wall of Separation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
He claims that the current system discriminates against religious groups and so we need to change the law to allow them to keep their religious character and to discriminate with government dollars in whom they hire.
Thus religious groups are not being treated "like all other groups." Rather, they are being given a special right to engage in religious bigotry in employment in taxpayer-funded programs.
The religious conversion of prisons is apparently apart of Bush’s pledge, made during his first inaugural address, that the state government would pursue a "moral and spiritual awakening." Although all faiths will reportedly be allowed to offer religious instruction and other services at the faith-based prisons, most of the programs are expected to be Christian.
blog.au.org /faithbased_initiatives__taxpayer_funded_religious_discrimination   (8914 words)

  
 AEJMC Archives -- August 1994, week 4 (#72)
Merton excited students with his positivist vision of sociology, a science that could strive to understand society, although its goal was thought a long way off.
Gitlin identifies this study in particular as emblematic of this "dominant paradigm." In their study of women in Decatur, Illinois, Katz and Lazarsfeld developed their two-step flow hypothesis, that ideas often flow from the media to opinion leaders who in turn spread them to other less active members of the population.
He lists later media sociology studies such as Cantor's (1971) study of the Hollywood producers and Tuchman's work (1972, 1973) as illustrations of this approach within organizations (Wright, 1974).
list.msu.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9408d&L=aejmc&F=&S=&P=9656   (8901 words)

  
 WHMC-Columbia--Religion--COLLECTION DESCRIPTIONS
List of books, including prayer book, Bible, theological works, grammars, foreign language dictionaries, Greek and Hebrew lexicons, the classics, and poetry; prices of books, clothing, and goods in the 1820s; tuition payments; allowances to children for furniture and sundries; and cash, 1832-1847.
List of subscribers to the school, rules and regulations, membership in each of the schools of the Belleview Society, list of books used, and attendance and achievement records of pupils.
She speaks of the religious conversion to Christ of several of her neighbors which took place "on the mountain." Reference to the conversion of a hundred or more others as well.
www.umsystem.edu /whmc/invent/desc-religion.html   (14030 words)

  
 1961
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 WELS Questions and Answers-- Religion - Organizations, Religious Movements, etc.
Further problems arise if the group promotes itself as a religious association which is joining in the work of the church.
There was little problem before 1961 when the AAL served only members of the Synodical Conference, and the Lutheran Brotherhood served members of other Lutheran churches.
They are practicing religious fellowship when they are not agreed in what God's Word teaches.
www.wels.net /sab/qa/rel-organization-05.html   (3088 words)

  
 Compass Direct News : IRAN - AUTHORITIES QUIETLY RELEASES CONVERT CHRISTIAN PRISONER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
A Christian for more than 25 years, Pourmand was an army colonel volunteering as a lay pastor in the port city of Bandar-i Bushehr at the time of his arrest two years ago.
Along with 85 other church leaders, Pourmand was detained on September 9, 2004, in a secret police raid of an Assemblies of God church conference in Karaj, near Tehran.
Although all the others were released within four days, Pourmand was kept in solitary confinement for five months and then put on trial before first military and then Islamic courts.
www.compassdirect.org /en/lead.php   (439 words)

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