Search results for "Religion in the United States" - New World Encyclopedia
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- of thought associated with and inspired by the ideas of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich ... Neo-Hegelianism was prominent in Great Britain and in the United States ...8 KB (1,042 words) - 16:16, 11 November 2022
- “One Who Yawns”; often spelled Goyathlay in English) (June 16, 1829 – ... Geronimo embodied the very essence of the Apache values—aggressiveness ...9 KB (1,410 words) - 07:39, 24 January 2023
- (May 20, 1825 – November 5, 1921), was the first woman to be ordained ... The honor of being the first woman to be ordained as a Christian minister ...8 KB (1,157 words) - 06:47, 31 July 2023
- Perjury is the act of lying or making verifiably false statements ... Perjury is the giving of false testimony under oath. The word comes ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 17:57, 26 March 2023
- Constitutional law is the foundational body of law of nation states ... These foundational or basic laws of states or organizations, guided ...11 KB (1,572 words) - 16:59, 21 April 2021
- The Four Freedoms are goals famously articulated by United States ... Roosevelt's Four Freedoms speech represented a milestone in his ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 12:27, 22 May 2021
- theologian and writer on philosophy of religion and philosophy of history ... Troeltsch also laid the groundwork for an inclusive perspective on ...9 KB (1,343 words) - 21:23, 20 March 2024
- The Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government ... Arguably the single most important piece of legislation passed by ...10 KB (1,533 words) - 06:38, 16 November 2022
- years at Princeton University, he studied the cultures of Southeast Asia ... Clifford Geertz was born in San Francisco, California in 1926. He ...9 KB (1,225 words) - 22:06, 7 January 2024
- The Social Gospel is a Protestant Christian theological teaching that ... The foremost writer among proponents was the American Walter Rauschenbusch ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 21:44, 30 January 2023
- Obscenity is either the state of being lewd and indecent, or something ... Still, most societies regard the existence of standards defining what ...14 KB (2,133 words) - 19:55, 17 November 2022
- Cao Dai (Cao Đài) is an Asian new religious movement that emerged ... The term Cao Đài is an abbreviation of the Vietnamese name for God ...12 KB (1,835 words) - 19:29, 25 November 2023
- The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award in ... The Presidential Medal of Freedom ranks second only to the Medal of ...9 KB (1,283 words) - 22:24, 30 November 2022
- The Bill of Rights 1689 is an English Act of Parliament with the full ... The Bill of Rights 1689 is largely a statement of certain positive ...9 KB (1,377 words) - 18:35, 13 February 2024
- who popularized European evolution theory in the United States. He studied ... Both in his books and on the lecture platform, Fiske endeavored to ...10 KB (1,417 words) - 06:36, 8 April 2024
- Political asylum is the granting of refuge to an alien in a foreign ... nor is any state required to give it. In fact, most nations have extradition ...14 KB (2,186 words) - 00:16, 12 April 2023
- Won Buddhism, Wonbulgyo, a compound of the Korean won (circle) and ... Sotaesan) attained great enlightenment in 1916 and had a precognition ...8 KB (1,141 words) - 14:59, 17 April 2023
- The Ramakrishna Mission ( রামকৃষ্ণ মিশন Swami Vivekananda on May 1, 1897, who in 1893, when he attended the ...11 KB (1,632 words) - 00:33, 8 December 2022
- A blue law, in the United States and Canada, is a type of law designed ... ==Coining the term "Blue Law"== The term blue law may have ...11 KB (1,685 words) - 23:53, 11 January 2023
- organizations including Women and Children in Reduced Circumstances, the ... Rebecca Gratz was born on March 4, 1781, in Lancaster, Pensylvannia ...8 KB (1,118 words) - 01:42, 8 December 2022
