Search results for "Religious movement" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • and soul of the woman's rights movement in America and England." ... resulted in Mott's turn to a more religious and introspective life ...
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  • Cao Dai (Cao Đài) is an Asian new religious movement that emerged in Vietnam in 1926 and was founded by Ngô Văn Chiêu (1878 – 1932). Caodaiists ...
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  • Ethical Culture is a nontheistic religion established by Felix Adler in 1876. The Ethical Culture Movement is a non-sectarian, ethico-religious ...
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  • of speech. In the later Middle Ages some religious chant evolved into song ... practiced. Chants form parts of many religious rituals and diverse spiritual ...
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  • Greek texts. As a reaction against the religious authoritarianism of Medieval ... Renaissance humanism was a European intellectual and cultural movement ...
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  • In the sociology of religion, a sect is generally a small religious ... they described sects as newly formed religious groups created to protest ...
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  • one of the founders of the Saint-Simonian movement. His ideas of a socialist ... leading a chiefly religiously-oriented movement, joined by new converts ...
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  • formed the basis for a prominent social movement in the late nineteenth and ... The Social Gospel movement applied Christian ethics to social problems ...
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  • Felix Adler (August 13, 1851 – April 24, 1933) was a Jewish religious ... Society for Ethical Culture, a nontheistic religious movement ...
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  • favor of the more neutral "new religious movement." A great deal ... sociology prefer to use the term new religious movement (NRM). Such new religions ...
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  • | founder = 17 members of the Religious Society of Friends ... The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Religious Society ...
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  • from her contemporaries with her use of religious faith in her efforts to ... to inject a prayer into her family's religious observance, she was accepted ...
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  • and by proponents of the Aesthetic Movement such as Walter Pater. It ... Pater and his followers in the Aesthetic Movement, which was self-consciously ...
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  • of Lord Hari") denotes a devotional movement that marked a turning point ... The founders of the Haridasa movement shared a common goal. They sought ...
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  • Zionism is an international political movement that originally supported ... . While Zionism is based in part upon the religious tradition linking the Jewish ...
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  • Menno Simons (1496 – January 31, 1561) was an Anabaptist religious ... significant in coming to the Anabaptist movement in the north in its most ...
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  • one of the finest representatives of the movement. Romanticism was an artistic ... best-known paintings are expressions of religious mysticism. In 1808 he exhibited ...
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  • Theology, is a contemporary theological movement challenging traditional ... In the 1960s, the death of God movement in Christian theology rejected ...
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  • Church and leader in the civil rights movement. He participated in most ... Known as the "Dean of the Civil Rights Movement," Lowery ...
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  • ===New religious movement=== of "the Ghost Dance," a religious movement that began in 1889 ...
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  • Camp meetings were outdoor religious gatherings that became a prominent ... the nineteenth century, the camp meeting movement had spread throughout the ...
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  • Religious exclusivism is the doctrine that the adherents of a particular ... to come." In Christianity, religious exclusivism is seen in ...
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  • voice of the emerging Conservative movement within American Judaism ... of over 100,000 pages of rare Hebrew religious manuscripts and other medieval ...
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  • Increasingly caught between the religious tensions in New England ... the distinctive tenets of the Unitarian movement, one of which was the rejection ...
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  • Russian Symbolism was an intellectual and artistic movement predominant ... Primary influences on the movement were the irrational and mystical ...
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  • Khomyakov, co-founded the Slavophile movement. The Slavophile movement ... divorced mind from soul, thoughts from (religious) feelings. ...
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  • from both sides of the Northern Ireland religious divide who were unwilling ... said, "one of the things the peace movement has to do is to persuade ...
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  • also may refer to the Israeli Progressive Movement, the worldwide Progressive ... The Reform movement began in Germany in the nineteenth century and ...
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  • his co-religionists to broaden their religious outlook and place their ... Israel attended mainly the Jewish religious school. He seems to have ...
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  • professor and clergyman until a religious conversion in 1374, after ... printing them, reproducing scriptural and religious texts and also literature ...
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  • different times, and the social-political movement to secure prohibition. Selling ... The prohibition, or "dry," movement began in the 1840s, ...
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  • which launched both the modern missions movement and the modern ecumenical ... of this conference, the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions was ...
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  • the examination of sacred texts and religious experiences according to ... the so-called neo-Hegelian philosophical movement in Great Britain, which ...
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  • Lollardy or Lollardry was the political and religious movement of the Lollards from the late fourteenth century to early in the time of the English ...
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  • 200 px|right|[[American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968)|American Civil ... The term social movement was introduced in 1850, by the German sociologist ...
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  • With Corrigan and their Peace People movement, which involved thousands ... Williams led a women's movement for peace that consisted of ordinary ...
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  • message of monotheistic devotion and religious harmony offered a bridge ... Sikhism derive from Guru Nanak. The religious movement that he started gathered ...
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  • politician. Her parents were deeply religious, and educated their children ... supported the Union and the anti-slavery movement. When her father was appointed ...
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  • sometimes given to a period of heightened religious activity, primarily in ... visiting from England, continued the movement, traveling across the colonies ...
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  • may or may not be true to the original religious context. ... Bacchus/Dionysus was an important figure in the religious imagination ...
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  • Because it gives insights into the special religious attitudes of ... concerns the community's particular religious vision. It stresses devotion ...
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  • his brother, who felt that Michael's religious works were superior to his own. ... was discovered which had the opening movement of the symphony in Mozart ...
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  • Music was closely related to the New Age movement of beliefs and its contents ... accessible for anyone. A spiritual movement and renaissance which started ...
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  • well-known proponent of the idea that New Religious Movements (NRM), or "cults ... twentieth century, at the time when New Religious Movements, including the ...
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  • that originated with doctrines and religious, political, and ecclesiological ... Protestant reformers, the Radical Reform movement emphasizing adult baptism ...
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  • that placed an emphasis on education, religious independence, and general ... in areas such as the early feminist movement and social reform. Hull ...
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  • rapidly to become a very popular form of religious practice in modern China; ... Li Hongzhi makes use of many religious concepts in his writings and ...
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  • and took part in the Legal Marxism movement. Studying Marxism, Bulgakov ... Sergei Bulgakov and the Fate of Russian Religious Philosophy. Ithaca, NY: ...
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  • to the spread of Hasidic Judaism. This movement had grown up in opposition ... The persecution thus temporarily drove the Hasidic movement underground ...
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  • Mani (c.216–274 A.D.) was an Iranian religious prophet and preacher ... Neo-Manichaeism is a modern revivalist movement that is not directly connected ...
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