On 3 May, Parliament decreed The Protestation, attacking the ' wicked counsels ' of Charles's government, whereby those who signed the petition undertook to defend ' the true reformed religion ', parliament, and the king's person, honour and estate.

In other places I confess Christ to be truly preached ; but manners and religion so sincerely reformed, I have not yet seen in any other place ...

Tlacaelel reformed the Aztec state and religion.

Suitors from all over Europe sought the hands of Anne and Elizabeth in marriage, including James VI of Scotland, who favoured Denmark as a kingdom reformed in religion and a profitable trading partner.

The purchasers were predominantly leading nobles, local magnates and gentry ; with no discernible tendency in terms of conservative or reformed religion, other than a determination to maintain and extend their family's position and local status.

Soon afterwards she gave up recording and performing when she turned to the Hare Krishna religion, though she did record and perform under the X-Ray Spex name again when they reformed in 1995.

This was practically a treaty between England and Scotland for the preservation of the reformed religion in Scotland, the reformation of religion in England and Ireland " according to the word of God and the example of the best reformed churches ," and the extirpation of popery and prelacy.

# The third principle, known as ( Ferdinand's Declaration ), exempted knights and some of the cities from the requirement of religious uniformity, if the reformed religion had been practiced there since the mid-1520s, allowing for a few mixed cities and towns where Catholics and Lutherans had lived together.

Some had adopted a reformed religion distinct from Lutheranism, in which humanist social concepts and the communal ethic played a greater role.

In February 1531, the evangelical princes and cities of the empire set up the Protestant Schmalkaldic League to defend the reformed religion.

by his father, a furtherer of reformed religion, and he that caused the first Bible at his costes to be Englisshed by Mr Myles Coverdal in Andwarp, the w ' h his father, with Mr Edward Whytchurch, printed both in Paris and London ” ( Registers of the Dutch Reformed Church, Austin Friars, 1884, p. xiv ).

Van Meteren's son, Emanuel, stated in an affidavit dated 28 May 1609 that his father was " a furtherer of reformed religion, and he that caused the first Bible at his costes to be Englisshed by Mr Myles Coverdal in Andwarp, the w ’ h his father, with Mr Edward Whytchurch, printed both in Paris and London.

This was practically a treaty between England and Scotland for the preservation of the reformed religion in Scotland, the reformation of religion in England and Ireland " according to the word of God and the example of the best reformed churches ," and the extirpation of popery and prelacy.

He had found it increasingly difficult to reconcile the new religion with the old, and from 1524 was one of the leaders of the reformed faith in Strasbourg.

In time, he did come to terms with Smith, who supported his claims to title in the Route on condition that he take up the reformed religion.

In this regard, it is much like France, on whose system of laicism its founder Kemal Atatürk modelled the rules on religion when he reformed his country in the early 20th century.

He speaks of himself as being the only son and heir of his father and fearing to be deprived of his inheritance, if he adopted the reformed religion.

The town converted to the new reformed religion while the Abbey remained Roman Catholic.

Their demand against the Calvinist Orthodoxy for intellectual liberty had never meant that they would follow `` free inquiry '' to the extreme of proclaiming Christianity a `` natural '' religion.

Rulers of the Imperial States have powers to decide their state religion, Protestant, Catholic or Calvinist, with the minorities of each of those faiths granted toleration of worship, and there is general recognition of exclusive sovereignty, including that of the Dutch Republic and Switzerland.

From April 1656, the prince received daily instruction in the Reformed religion from the Calvinist preacher Cornelis Trigland, a follower of the Contra-Remonstrant theologian Gisbertus Voetius.

The Queen was Anne of Denmark, and her father, an ardent Lutheran, had stipulated that she should have the right to practice her own religion in Scotland, and for that purpose sent with her a chaplain named John Lering who, however, shortly after his arrival, became a Calvinist.

From 1561 he advocated and supported the Huguenot cause, and the French ambassador described him as " totally of the Calvinist religion " in 1568.

Afrikaner Calvinism is, according to theory, a unique cultural development that combined the Calvinist religion with the political aspirations of the white Afrikaans speaking people of South Africa.

They spoke their own, indigenous language, called Afrikaans, and were bound together by a form of Calvinist religion.

According to an eyewitness report, when asked on his deathbed what his religion was, Field replied with a characteristic pun: " I am not a Calvinist, but a Claveciniste.

On the outbreak of the second war of religion in 1567, Pithou, who was a Calvinist, withdrew to Sedan, France and afterwards to Basel, returning to France on the publication of the edict of pacification.

Alsace-Moselle is still governed by a pre-1905 law established by the Concordat of 1801 which provides for the public subsidy of the Roman Catholic Church, the Lutheran Church, the Calvinist Church and the Jewish religion, as well as providing for public education in these faiths ; although parents are allowed to refuse religious education for their children.

The Edict of Nantes, issued on April 13, 1598, by Henry IV of France, granted Protestants – notably Calvinist Huguenots – substantial rights in a nation where Catholicism was the state religion.

Napoleon Bonaparte negotiated a reconciliation with the Church through the 1801 Concordat, whereby the State would subsidize the Catholic religion ( recognized as the one of the majority of the French ), as well as Judaism, and the Lutheran and Calvinist branches of Protestantism.

In 1563 the Diet also accepted the Calvinist religion, and in 1568 it extended freedom to all religions, declaring that " It is not allowed to anybody to intimidate anybody with captivity or expelling for his religion " – a freedom unusual in medieval Europe.

The little community had very hard times in the 16th-17th centuries when Buda was under Turkish occupation but it survived thanks to the residents ' strong Calvinist religion.

In 1807, he added Judaism as an official religion of France, with previously sanctioned Roman Catholicism, and Lutheran and Calvinist Protestantism.

In terms of religion, in year 2002, 51. 12 % were Reformed ( Calvinist ), 36. 46 % Romanian Orthodox, 6. 56 % Roman Catholic and 5. 86 % was split between Baptists, Romanian Greek-Catholic, Pentecostals and other faiths.

In the french anarchist movement Eliseé Reclus was a son of a Calvinist minister, and began by rejecting religion before they moving on to anarchism.

In religion he was a Calvinist and anti-Arminian ; he had shown some leniency in the Star Chamber case against the iconoclast and extremist Henry Sherfield.

At the same time that he treated his patients, the doctor proselytized his Protestant Calvinist ideals and religion, creating conflict within the community, reaching as far as the municipalities of Machico and Santa Cruz.

Praetorius was so impressed by the Great Wine Barrel in Heidelberg Castle that he published a poem with the title " Vas Heidelbergense " in October 1595, praising its size as an apparent proof of the superiority of the Calvinist religion.

Only after the 17th century however would the Calvinist state religion get a firm grip over the vast majority of the northern population of the Netherlands, previously many had still secretly remained loyal to their ancestors ' religion.

But using a broader definition, such as Frederick Streng's characterization of religion as " a means of ultimate transformation ", Confucianism could be described as a " sociopolitical doctrine having religious qualities.

Echoes of James ' and Durkheim's definitions are to be found in the writings of, for example, Frederick Ferré who defined religion as " one's way of valuing most comprehensively and intensively ".

Her sister Louise took her to the sermons of Frederick Maurice, who was a more socially aware and less traditional Anglican and whose opinion influenced Millicent's view of religion.

Following King Sigismund III's Prussian regency contract ( 1605 ) with Joachim Frederick of Brandenburg and his Treaty of Warsaw, 1611, with John Sigismund of Brandenburg, confirming the Brandenburgian co-enfeoffment, these two regents guaranteed free practice of Catholic religion in prevailingly Lutheran Prussia.

In June 1874 he was found guilty of a libel on Otto von Bismarck, whom he had compared to Frederick the Great in " his unrighteous war with Austria and his ruination of religion and morality ," to Napoleon III in his way of " picking out the best time possible for robbery and plunder.

His first bridal candidate was one of the daughters of Frederick III, German Emperor, but the issue of religion presented an insurmountable problem and the pressure of British diplomacy prevented the marriage.

National MP for Tauranga, Frederick Doidge, argued " With us, loyalty is an instinct as deep as religion ".

By the Treaty of Warsaw ( 18 September 1773 ), King Frederick II guaranteed the free exercise of religion for the Catholics, so the religious body of the Roman Catholic diocese continued to exist, known today as the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Warmia.

Following King Sigismund III's contract on regency in Ducal Prussia ( 1605 ) with Joachim Frederick of Brandenburg, and his Treaty of Warsaw ( 1611 ) with John Sigismund of Brandenburg, confirming the co-enfeoffment of the Berlin Hohenzollern with Ducal Prussia, these two rulers guaranteed free practice of Catholic religion in all of prevailingly Lutheran Ducal Prussia.

In 1808 he was appointed tutor to the royal princes, in 1809 councillor of state in the department of religion, and in 1810 tutor of the crown prince ( afterwards Frederick William IV of Prussia ), on whose sensitive and dreamy nature he was to exercise a powerful but far from wholesome influence.

Though Rachel's husband Frederick was buried in his father's enormous mausoleum in Highgate Cemetery in London, Rachel's family intervened to prevent her burial in that bastion of Anglican religion.

While the reinstitution in 1850 by Pope Pius IX of a Roman Catholic hierarchy in England was generally strongly condemned, Gaskell assumes an open mind about Catholicism and has Frederick Hale converting to his Spanish wife ’ s Catholic religion ( Matus, 2007, p 174 ).

On the death of Frederick in 1766 he returned to France, bought a small estate in Alsace near Lauterbach, and devoted his time to religion and farming.