... such as China being at the opposite end of the spectrum. In America religious affiliation has often led to commentators speculating that voters of a particular denomination are likely to vote in a certain fashion. Research however conducted during the 1990s has shown this not to be the case and that the extent of religiosity is a more reliable indictor of the direction in which vote is likely ... American politics. Religious symbols and values play an increasingly prominent role in the political spectrum with some candidates such as Bush in the lead up to the 2000 election claiming that...

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... congregations, bringing together diasporic Chinese from diverse origins--Taiwan, Hong Kong, mainland China, and Southeast Asian countries. Despite the many tensions and conflicts that exist within these congregations, most individuals find ways to creatively integrate their evangelical Christian beliefs with traditional Chinese (mostly Confucian) values. The church becomes a place where they can selectively assimilate into American ... society while simultaneously preserving Chinese values and culture. Religion, spirituality, and faith have always been important to Asian American commun...

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... Whitfield, who caused even the skeptical Benjamin Franklin to empty his pockets into the collection plates. Using the simplest language, and taking advantage of human guilt, these preachers greatly helped in the rise of church attendance, creating vivid images of Hell, and stating that no longer was there the elite, everyone could have salvation if they redeemed their sins now. ... They spread their message out to all, to the simplest country folk, and even women and African American slaves, increasing church attendance to the extent that sermons were needed to be preached outdoors, turn...

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... of Eusebius (382). In 382 Jerome returned to Rome, where his reputation as a Biblical scholar grew, and where, observing the last, decadent stages of the Roman Empire, Jerome reaffirmed his commitment to monasticism and asceticism. Some biographers of Jerome have claimed that he assisted Pope Damasus, and that, in the Roman hierarchy, he was to have directly succeeded him. However, Jerome's own ... writings suggest that he played a less prominent role in the ecclesiastical council. Much of his attention during ... of his research into scriptural interpretation. Yet beyond his well-docu...

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... in amassing much wealth through means of trade. Wall, (1), describes how the only legal restriction against Catholics was that of the making/selling of arms and ammunition, a law that was reflective of the governmental attitude against Irish Catholics. As Wall, (1), highlights, there was no restrictive law in place to prevent regarding the hempen and linen industry, which served as the main ... this particular instance, 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 ro...

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The Rebellion of 1641 has proved to have lasting effects on the modern Irish state. There were several distinct factors that ultimately led to the uprising, representing the independent interests of different groups within Ireland. The years directly preceding the outbreak of the Rebellion and the political ... murdered, drowned, and burned alive. Although some of the stories told have been dismissed as exaggeration, there is little doubt from the extensive records of the time that the rebellion was a bloody one to which some scholars have estimated the death toll of settlers between 10,000 a...

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... entirely religious revolt and many historians agree with this finding although there are many other aspects of life affecting the rebels that may have provoked a rebellion and there are others who believe that the religious side to the Pilgrimage of Grace was only to 'deceive the simple and ignorant.' The Pilgrimage not only immediately gave the concept of it being a religious revolt with the ... naming of the rebellion 'pilgrim: Person who journeys to a holy place' but also used religious symbols and artefacts to enhance and out forward the statement that the revolt was one of religiou...

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... XV, and most of the prominent people of the time. Both Voltaire and Gibbon had the sense of history strong in them; both have set out very plainly and fully their visions of human life; and it is clear that to both of them the system in which they lived, the ! system of monarchy, of leisurely and privileged gentlefolk_s, of rather despised ... plutocracy of Rome into a world of fine gentlemen upon the eighteenth-century model, and told how it fell before the Barbarian from without because of the decay through Christianity within. In our history here we have tried to set that story in a b...

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