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	Religious Society of Friends Religious Society of Friends religious body originating in England in the middle of the 17th cent. under George Fox . The members are commonly called Quakers, originally a term of derision. Origins and Early Years Claiming that no theologically trained priest or outward rite is needed to... Read more
	Persecution PERSECUTION PERSECUTION. Life was difficult for almost everyone in early modern Europe. Malnutrition, grinding poverty, pervasive disease, and frequent warfare over much of the continent were commonplace challenges for early modern Europeans. Furthermore, most political systems oppressed at least... Read more
	Martyrdom Martyrdom BIBLIOGRAPHY Martyrdom is defined as voluntary death for a cause, often for a religious purpose or as the result of persecution. The terminology of martyrdom varies from region to region. The term martyr comes from the Greek martur, which means “witness, Read more
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	Civil Liberties Civil Liberties and War. From the outset of the new American government under the Articles of Confederation, the need for striking a delicate balance between authority and liberty was essential. Fear of powerful central control was stated clearly regarding the English king in the U.S. Declaration of... Read more
	Freedom of religion RELIGIOUS LIBERTY RELIGIOUS LIBERTY. The United States adopted a policy of religious liberty partly because influential people, including Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, advocated it, but partly because the sheer number of competing religious groups in eighteenth-century America made the... Read more
	Religious Freedom Restoration Act Religious Freedom Restoration Act (1993) Alan E. Brownstein and Melissa Rogers Excerpt from the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (a) In general. Government shall not substantially burden a person's exercise of religion even if the burden results from a rule of general... Read more
	Bast BAST Inviolable sanctuaries in Iran used to seek protection from political or religious persecution. Bast means sanctuary or asylum. Mosques, holy shrines, and foreign embassy compounds have most frequently been used as bast. Although the period of the Constitutional Revolution (1905 Read more
	Pogroms Pogroms EUROPEAN POGROMS: FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE EARLY MODERN ERA POGROMS IN RUSSIA UNDER THE CZARS AND DURING THE REVOLUTION POGROMS IN GERMANY BIBLIOGRAPHY The term pogrom is derived from the Russian pogromit (to create a desert) and describes forcible excursions and plunder against... Read more
	Roger Williams Roger Williams c.1603-1683, clergyman, advocate of religious freedom, founder of Rhode Island , b. London. A protégé of Sir Edward Coke, he graduated from Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1627 and took Anglican orders. He early espoused Puritanism and emigrated to the Massachusetts... Read more

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	Swiss panel on Holocaust wealth clears key hurdle Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post ...37-0 vote was almost the final hurdle for a bill to create a panel of independent...at the start of next year.The bill creates a commission of experts...Jews and other victims of Nazi persecution and whether the Swiss have done...
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