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The Religious Society of Friends began as a Christian movement ( though a few contemporary Quakers in some meetings do not consider themselves Christian, while some consider themselves as part of a Universal religion, that for historical reasons is rooted in Christianity ), founded in 17th Century England ; it has around 350, 000 members.
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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.
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* 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 ).
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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.
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* 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 ).
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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.
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Many members of the Religious Society of Friends, known as Quakers, made their homes in western New York state, near Seneca Falls.
* The Religious Society of Friends ( finished 1784 ) is a Quaker meeting house next to the former All Saints Church ( now an arts centre ) on Friar's Walk.
The Boone family belonged to the Religious Society of Friends, disparagingly called " Quakers " and persecuted in England for their dissenting beliefs.
In the Religious Society of Friends, the word testimony is used to refer to the ways in which Friends testify or bear witness to their beliefs in their everyday lives.
Some of the early settlers were of the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers.
* Richmond is the headquarters of the Friends United Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ).
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Religious governments probably began to criminalize drugs ' possession and trade in the Middle Ages, and such legislation has continued until the present day, by both religious and non-religious governments.
Religious broadcasting began in the 1920s through the radio.
The controversy surrounding prehistoric or " primal " matriarchy began in reaction to the book by Johann Jakob Bachofen Mother Right: An Investigation of the Religious and Juridical Character of Matriarchy in the Ancient World in 1861.
In separate though parallel developments, the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary began teaching local young women in 1923.
Further expansion occurred in 1986 when Felician College began offering its Religious Studies Certificate Program at off-campus locations in the diocese of Metuchen.
Religious scholar Catherine Wessinger posits that the suicides began on March 22.
Before the breakup of Yugoslavia began in 1991, she invited the Orthodox Bishop Sava and the Mufti of Belgrade, along with the Yugoslav Minister for Religious Affairs to attend a conference in Moscow that was hosted by Mikhail Gorbachev.
Though the college initially only admitted students who belonged to the Religious Society of Friends, Earlham began admitting non-Quakers in 1865.
Along with his wife, Nga Nguyen, he began attending meetings of the Religious Society of Friends in January 2002.
Born in Szombathely to a middle-class family, Bárdossy began his career in the Hungarian government as a young man when he found employ in the Ministry of Religious Affairs.
Religious seekers also began going to the desert seeking advice and counsel from the early Desert Fathers.
In the 1970s the Faculty of Divinity also began offering undergraduate degrees in Theology and Religious Studies, and students in these programmes now make up the majority of the nearly 300 undergraduates enrolled in any given year.
She began her professional writing career in 1823 by writing a monthly periodical called the Assistant of Education, Religious and Literary, which she intended for the education of children.
The Religious Society of Friends is a movement that began in England in the 17th century.
In 1979, some new programs began: a baccalaureate program in nursing, a weekend degree program for business majors, a " Communication Skills " component of the new general education requirements, and an " Education for Parish Service " by the Religious Studies department.
These founders, members of the Religious Zionist movement, began to prepare themselves for agricultural work on German farms in 1929.
In 1976, Matter began to teach at the University of Pennsylvania, where, in 1996, she was elected R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Religious Studies.
Religious poetry was in this way reduced to mere trifling, for in the 11th century, which witnessed the decline of Greek hymnology and the revival of pagan humanism, Michael Psellus began parodying church hymns, a practice that took root in popular culture.
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