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Young Saints and the Knots of Satan: Moral Exemplarity, Ministry and Youth in Early Modern Dissenters’ Writing [PDF]
This investigation considers a key motif for early modern religious writing - the saintly or morally exemplary child - as depicted in both the narratives of actual children’s lives as well as in Defoe’s The Family Instructor.
Penny Pritchard, Pritchard, Penny
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The Irish Catholic Church under Charles II: the ‘Popish Plot’ and the Martyrdom of Oliver Plunkett
The late 1670s under Charles II were a special time in British history during which religious controversy ran high. The rivalry between the king, who issued a Declaration of Indulgence suspending all laws punishing Roman Catholics and other religious ...
Marie-Claire Considère-Charon
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The author examines the process of establishment of Christian understanding of freedom of conscience and freedom of religion and tolerance. In doing so, he draws on the achievements of the Greek and Greek-Roman traditions of interpreting freedom of ...
Mykhailo Babii
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Davis, Rebecca L.By applying a queer analysis to the 1646 religious dissent trial of Lucy Brewster in New Haven, Connecticut, this thesis shifts the analytical lens away from reading religious dissent trials as battles of individual women against ...
Siers, Helen
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From a religiously restrictive colony controlled by the established church to an exemplar of religious freedom for a new country, Ragosta recounts Virginia’s formative struggle between the Anglican Church and dissenters, i.e., predominately Presbyterians
Pearson, Andrew
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The role of dissent in the creation of Seventh-day Adventist identity
This thesis studies the benefits that a religious organization acquires from its identification of, and reaction to, “deviants” within it. If an organization is to continue growing while still maintaining a unique identity, periodically it must have ...
Dunfield, Timothy
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“The Indefensibility of the Jurisprudential Theory of Disrespecting the Opposite Opinion in the Imami Jurisprudence with Emphasis on the Dignity-based Teachings of Islamic Human Rights” [PDF]
In recent centuries, a theory has emerged among some Imami jurists that some Shari'a rulings are based on the principle of lack of immunity and lack of respect for the beliefs of religious dissenters (non-Shi'ites), which is interpreted in ...
Ali Mohamadian
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Protestant letter networks in the reign of Mary I: A quantitative approach
Sebastian E.
Ahnert, R, Ahnert, SE
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The Legal Treatment of Religious Dissent in Western Europe: A Comparative View [PDF]
This article examines the legal treatment of religious dissent from a comparative perspective, by focusing on the legal evolution from intolerance to toleration, and from toleration to emancipation in France, Italy, Norway and the United Kingdom ...
C. Cianitto, R. Bottoni
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The paper analyzes early colonial representations of the New World, connected with immigration of the first- and second-generation religious dissenters in what was to become America.
Justyna Fruzińska
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