... pretensions of monarchy; but the republicanism that appealed to Voltaire was the crowned republicanism of the Britain of those days, in which the king was simply the official head, the first and greatest of the gentlemen. The ideal they sustained was the ideal of a polite and polished ... the west; and the torrent was swelled by the gradual accession of captives and allies. The flying tribes who yielded to the Huns assumed in their turn the spirit of conquest; the endless column of barbarians pressed on the Roman Empire with accumulated weight and, if the foremost were ... the servile ...

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... of Leinster, Munster, Connacht, and Ulster, and the English population in the Pale, a relatively urbanized settlement centered in Dublin and the outlying towns of Leinster and Munster (Becket, Short History). The Protestant Reformation introduced into Ireland in the 1530s made little progress in winning converts among the indigenous Irish population. King James I was, however, a committed member of the Church ... of England and was concerned to promote the established church in Ireland. Consequently, religious reformation was central to the ideological framework of the ... the ensuing ...

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... religious group, it still shares many core values. Wald (1996) noted that American religion had managed to remain independent of then political process but reserved the right to pass judgement. In this way the Church has remained unscathed as when religious leaders enter the political fray they undermine their affiliated religion. Furthering the claim that religion and politics is incompatible, at ... the series of Gallop polls post 1985 which shows a consistent distrust for institutions but also shows that the military is the most trusted institution in America, the people's faith in th...

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... sections before the Great Awakening, it divided the religious community internally, into "old lights" and "new lights", those opposed and those supportive of the Great Awakening; caused primarily by a decline in worship attendance, and Enlightenment rationalism. Due to conciliations with the Congregational Church, such as the Half-way Covenant, used to raise the worship attendance, which however, led to further declines ... simplest country folk, and even women and African American slaves, increasing church attendance to the extent that sermons were needed to be preached outdoors, turning...

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... and practice. Despite their rich histories, Asian religions are dynamic, often responding to the changing needs of their followers, in Asia and abroad. Today there are more than one thousand Chinese churches in the United States, most of them Protestant evangelical congregations, bringing together diasporic Chinese from diverse origins--Taiwan, Hong Kong, mainland China, and Southeast Asian countries. Despite ... have always been important to Asian American communities, as they were for many generations before them. But within the diversity of the Asian American community, diversity exi...

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... out forward the statement that the revolt was one of religious conflict. The differing opinions on the actual extent to which religious unrest played in the pilgrimage are extensive and many have a more balanced opinion that there were many grievances which played a role but it was religion which ... to be inevitable as the northern parts of England had never been a settled place. The north resented Cromwell and the increasing governmental roles in communities which held strong to tradition. Enclosure of land was a starting element to the unrest as many feared that this would decrease the...

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... of "illustrious men," document ecclesiastical controversies, write scriptural commentaries, and correspond with many leading Christian scholars of the day. Of particular theological interest is Jerome's correspondence, beginning in 404, with Augustine. Although the first letters concern somewhat antagonistic disagreements regarding scriptural interpretation, most of the subsequent ones chronicle their serious and friendly discussions of religious issues and ... bad health and the numerous military invasions of Bethlehem from the East during that time contributed to the sporadic nature o...

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... , there was a negative governmental and political attitude toward Irish Roman Catholics as regards the amassing of wealth, and the Catholics, as we have seen, had a large role to play in the development of that attitude. This creation of wealth among Irish Roman Catholics, as argued by Whelan, (2), created an instability around the issue of land ownership. As Whelan, (2), outlines ... not always possible for landlords to locate Protestant tenants, and so many landlords chose to let to Catholic tenants as an alternative. The advantages of renting to Catholic tenants were in plenty, as Whe...

• Word Count: 1510
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