Elder DD The Book of Esther: Its spiritual teaching London: The Religious Tract Society, 1913

The Religious Society of Friends or Quaker Church is one of the earliest American opponents of capital punishment and unequivocally opposes execution in all its forms.

The Quakers, also known as the Religious Society of Friends, believe that they have no need for creedal formulations of faith.

The Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ) is also much like Lutheranism in regards to homosexuality.

* 1790 – The Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, petitions U. S. Congress for abolition of slavery.

George Fox ( July 1624 – 13 January 1691 ) was an English Dissenter and a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends.

* Quaker Faith and Practice, Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ) in Britain.

* Náboženská společnost českých unitářů ( Religious Society of Czech Unitarians )

* Cuba ( 2 groups: the Unitarian Universalist Church and the Unitarian Universalist Religious Society )

* 1673 – John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sells his part of New Jersey to the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers.

* 1656 – Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ).

* Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers )

The Adventist Society for Religious Studies ( ASRS ) was formed to foster a community among Adventist theologians who attend the Society of Biblical Literature ( SBL ) and the American Academy of Religion.

Ephrata was incorporated as the German Religious Society of Seventh Day Baptists in 1814, and the site where their community was founded came to be known at the Ephrata Cloister.

Although his family had been Quakers for four generations, he was expelled from the Religious Society of Friends because his involvement with a military force contradicted his faith's pacifistic nature.

** Religious Society of Friends

Churches also often played a role, especially the Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ), Congregationalists, Wesleyans, and Reformed Presbyterians as well as certain sects of mainstream denominations such as branches of the Methodist church and American Baptists.

* George Fox founds the Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ) in England.

* June 13 – Religion: George Fox preaches to a large crowd on Firbank Fell, leading to the establishment of the Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ).

Most prominent among the latter in Maryland at the time were members of the Religious Society of Friends, often called Quakers.

Church meetings typically allow all present to speak, a practice similar to the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, although these two groups were also never affiliated.

The United Society of Believers in Christ ’ s Second Appearing, known as the Shakers, is a religious sect originally thought to be a development of the Religious Society of Friends.

* Garth Blake, " Promoting Religious Tolerance in a Multifaith Society: Religious Vilification Legislation in Australia and the UK.

The Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association (), abbreviated CPA, CPCA, or CCPA, is an association of people, established in 1957 by the People's Republic of China's Religious Affairs Bureau to exercise state supervision over mainland China's Catholics.

The Associated German Religious Movement (), founded in Eisenach at the end of 1933, was also an attempt to create a national religion outside and against the churches.

In fact, the Kemalist state's support for Islam was demonstrated by the establishment of Directorate for Religious Affairs (), created " to execute the works concerning the beliefs, worship, and ethics of Islam, enlighten the public about their religion, and administer the sacred worshipping places ".

It is also sometimes confused with Religious Science, religious denomination in line with the New Thought tradition and founded in 1927.

She founded and taught at the Columbia Religious and Industrial School for Jewish Girls.

The oldest association in the United Kingdom similar to the YMCA was founded in Scotland in 1824 as Glasgow Young Men's Society for Religious Improvement.

The two nuns of the Religious of the Sacred Heart founded a convent and a school that became the Academy of the Sacred Heart.

* Perry City – A hamlet founded by The Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ), and still home to the original Quaker Meeting House.

The school was founded in 1864 by a committee of Quakers who were members of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, New York Yearly Meeting and Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.

Friendswood was founded in 1895 by members of the Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ).

The College was founded in 1833 by area members of the Orthodox Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ) to ensure an education grounded in Quaker values for young Quaker men.

AFSC was founded in 1917 as a combined effort by American members of the Religious Society of Friends to assist civilian victims of World War I.

In the same year she founded the Information Network Focus on Religious Movements ( INFORM ), with the support of the Archbishop of Canterbury and financial help from the British Home Office.

The Liberal movement in the UK was founded in the early part of the 20th century by Lily Montagu, Claude Montefiore and others as the Jewish Religious Union ( JRU ).

Sloss Rebovich, Jr., son of the American theologian and writer, founded the Presbyterian Church in 1791, as the First Religious Society of Whitestown.

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, a Hasidic-trained rabbi ordained in the Lubavitch movement, broke with Orthodox Judaism beginning in the 1960s, and founded his own organization, The B ' nai Or Religious Fellowship, which he described in an article entitled " Toward an Order of B ' nai Or.

The University of the Immaculate Conception, formerly called Immaculate Conception College, is the first Catholic school in the island of Mindanao founded in 1905 by the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary Sisters ( RVM ).

She established the first Catholic school in the nation, at Emmitsburg, Maryland, where she founded the first American congregation of Religious Sisters, the Sisters of Charity.

Janssen also founded two congregations of Religious Sisters: The Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters ( members known as " Sister Servants of the Holy Spirit ") on December 8, 1889, and the Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters (" Sister Servants of the Holy Spirit of Perpetual Adoration ") on September 8, 1896.

The New Thought movement includes Religious Science founded by Ernest Holmes ; Divine Science, founded by Malinda Cramer and the Brook sisters ; and Unity founded by Charles Fillmore and Myrtle Fillmore.

The Congregational Nuns were the Congregation of Notre Dame, founded by Marguerite Bourgeoys, not the Sisters of Charity, as Monk stated at the beginning of her text ; the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph, whose habits were black but who were not typically called " Black Nuns ", operated the Hotel-Dieu, where Monk claimed that she entered and suffered, and it was not founded by " Sister Bourgeoise "; and it was the Sisters of Charity who were commonly known as the Grey Nuns.

New departments were founded and influential journals of religious studies were initiated ( for example, Religious Studies and Religion ).

These include: A Pinch of Salt, a 1980s Christian anarchist magazine, revived in 2006 by Keith Hebden as a blog and bi-annual magazine ; Vine & Fig Tree founded by Kevin Craig in 1982 ; Jesus Radicals founded by Mennonites Nekeisha and Andy Alexis-Baker in 2000 ; Lost Religion of Jesus created by Adam Clark in 2005 ; Christian Anarchists created by Jason Barr in 2006 ; The Mormon Worker, a blog and newspaper, founded in 2007 by William Van Wagenen to promote Mormonism, anarchism and pacifism ; Academics and Students Interested in Religious Anarchism ( ASIRA ) founded by Alexandre Christoyannopoulos in 2008.