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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Religious Toleration"”.
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The Development of the Doctrine of the Church and Religious Toleration among English Presbyterians, 1643-1705
… the English presbyterians went from the party of religious intolerance, exemplified by the polemicist Thomas Edwards in the mid-1640s, to a denomination that was among the most doctrinally diverse, known in the early 1700s for exponents of religious toleration such as Edmund Calamy the younger. My …
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Tolerance and toleration: the experience of the Quakers in East Yorkshire c.1660-1699
… a distinction between the terms tolerance and toleration, which are used in the title of the work. Tolerance refers to the informal and unofficial actions of the local community in their daily relationships with their Quaker neighbours. In practical terms, these could be as insignificant as …
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"For Reformation and Uniformity": George Gillespie (1613-1648) and the Scottish Covenanter Revolution
… of England, defending Presbyterianism, opposing religious toleration, and combating Erastianism. He is best remembered as one of the Scottish Commissioners to the Westminster Assembly in London, which sought to reform the English Church and establish a uniform religion for the two kingdoms. This …
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'La Violence et la mauvaise foi': Context and rhetoric in Pierre Bayle's Ce que c'est que la France toute Catholique
… Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in which the religious toleration afforded to the Huguenot minority in France was repealed, a pivotal moment in the history of early modern France. In my thesis, I analyse the specific context within which Bayle wrote this pamphlet as a means of addressing a …
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Italian Protestant exiles and the heresy debate in sixteenth-century Switzerland, 1553 - 1584
… of argument, in response to the question of religious coercion: the orthodox Reformed language, formulated by the leaders of the Swiss Reformed Churches and their supporters, which was designed to justify the legitimacy of inflicting penalties, including capital punishment, on heretics; and …
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The language of dissent : the defense of eighteenth-century English dissent in the works and sermons of James Peirce.
… Dissent, delineated by its primary emphasis on religious toleration. This study demonstrates that Peirce's The Western Inquisition (1720) should be considered the first major history of Nonconformity to define the movement according to religious toleration, thus supplanting Daniel Neal's The …
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The Evolution Of French Identity: A Study Of The Huguenots In Colonial South Carolina, 1680-1740
… Carolina. In their pursuit of prosperity and religious toleration, the Huguenots' identity evolved from one of French religious refugees to that of white South Carolinians. How and why this evolution occurred is the focus of this study. Upon arriving in the colony in the 1680s and 1690s, the …
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The Most Dangerous Sect: Baptists in Tsarist and Soviet Russia, 1905-1929
"This study explores a period of profound religious searching, possibility, and change in Russia through the prism of the Baptists, the fastest growing non-Orthodox religious movement among Russians in the early twentieth century. From the 1905 imperial declaration of religious toleration to the …
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Dissent and the Church of Scotland, 1660-1690
… (extending from the Rebellion to the granting of religious toleration in 1687), when conventicles again became rare and most Scots again conformed. This collapse, it will be argued, was the result of persecution (the traditional explanation) and the actions of certain radical sects who unwittingly …
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Prussian Bureaucrats and the Jews in West, South, and New East Prussia, 1772-1807
This dissertation examines policies towards the Jews in late eighteenth-century Prussia, paying particular attention to its eastern provinces in present-day Poland. Drawing on archival sources from Germany, Poland, Israel, and the US, it complicates traditional narratives of eighteenth-century …
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The church courts in Restoration England, 1660–c. 1689
After a two-decade hiatus, the English church courts were revived by an act of Parliament on 27 July 1661, to resume their traditional task of correcting spiritual and moral misdemeanours. Soon thereafter, parishioners across England’s dioceses once more faced admonition, fines, excommunication, …