... economic and social interaction between the Protestant settlers and the Catholic native population in the intervening period (Canny, What Really). However, this accounts for the resentment that contributed to the viciousness of the attacks on the Protestant settlers and the large numbers of fatalities involved. In the short-term sense, the years directly preceding the outbreak reveal the ... religious tensions of Protestants and Catholics and the political differences in England and Ireland. Under the economic difficulties of the Ulster Plantation the native Irish resorted to desperate ...

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... 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 of religious commitment. However, with preachers such as Jonathan Edwards, in his notable sermon, "Sinners in the ... one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked. (5b2)", and George Whitfield, who caused even the skeptical Benjamin Franklin t...

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... 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 ... assist each other. History shows that numerous churches and religious organizations played very important roles in helping immigrants from China, Japa...

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... . In countries such as Saudi Arabia and Iran, Islam not only shapes law but also dominates politics, all decisions being scrutinised by respected religious leaders. These countries may be considered to be at one extreme end of the religion and politics debate, secular states such as China being at the opposite end of the spectrum. In America religious affiliation has often ... 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 it was God who had chosen him...

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... natural that they should find the existence of religion in the world, and in particular the existence of Christianity, a perplexing and rather unaccountable phenomenon. The whole of that side of life seemed to them a kind of craziness in the human make-up. Gibbon's great history is essentially an attack upon Christianity as the operating cause of the decline and fall. He idealized ... 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 better light. ...

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... an 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 ... in 1536 a time when the country was at peace. These taxations were coupled wit ha poor harvest and with a bleak prospect of a better harvest the following summer and the added burden of the risk of l...

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... response, Jerome vowed never to study secular literature, but it was a promise he kept imperfectly. Although he read Classical literature for the rest of his life, Jerome devoted himself to studying the Bible and other religious writings. He also resolved to lead an ascetic life, and the following year began a monastic life in the desert of Chalcis. Jerome's tendency to incite feelings of enmity eventually ... led him to leave Chalcis in 379 for Antioch and then Constantinople; during this ... period he studied under church scholars and began translating the Chronicle of Eusebius (382)....

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... was the rise of the Catholic middle class throughout the eighteenth century. Wall, (1), holds the objective of providing an account of the part played by Catholics in the commercial life of Ireland up until the year 1782, and that, despite the penal laws, the Catholic community in Ireland at the time succeeded in amassing much wealth through means of ... (4), explains, had been influenced by the decline of Jacobitism. However, this hostility toward Catholicism would soon be thrown into uncertainty, as Conway, (4), writes. While there existed a considerable opposition to the recruitment ...

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