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    repealed by Queen Mary I, the daughter of King Henry vii. She was a devout catholic and reinstated Catholicism as England’s official state religion. Mary was very unforgiving of those who chose protestant faith and burned many at the stake, this would help build hostility between the prostatpnts and Catholics for generations to come, and affecting how Victorian politics would be shaped. In 1559 a new act of supremacy was passed by queen Elizabeth I, she also passed the act of uniformity which…

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    by making them all be one thing, it will bring people together. This led to outbreaks of religious violence. This impacted the Protestants badly. Protestants were Christian. There were many Protestants in England. They disliked the pope and Catholicism. Protestants were against Mary’s beliefs in making everyone Catholic. Many Protestants leaders fled to Europe. She authorized her government to…

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    do not view the virgin Mary as equal to Christ but rather respect virgin Mary because of her relationship to Christ. When Linda was explaining this to me, I felt sad and upset of myself because there was a point in the past that I disliked the Catholicism because I had a bad interpretation about them and I believed that they worship the virgin Mary as a Goddess in which I was totally against. I was against it because I thought they viewed her as equal to God and in my religion there is no one…

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    religion, to how other people view the world. No two religions are the exact same, one has to have some aspect that sets them apart. Examples the Jewish faith does read the Torah same as Catholics but they do not believe in Jesus. Satanism and Catholicism on the other hand more people can probably name the differences then the similarities. One of the most obvious is Satanist do not worship God, they worship themselves. They do not believe in praying to ask for help by God they believe if you…

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    Most of Costa Rica is dominated by the Sierra Madre mountains, literally fractured into individual ranges and valleys by violent volcanic eruptions over eons of time. Guatemala, except for the coastal areas, is a mountainous country of rolling hills, plateaus, deep river valleys, and numerous volcanoes – some still active.Speaking of volcanoes , Costa Rica’s most active one, located in the Tilaran Mountains erupts in some measure almost every day. To the southeast, the Poas, Barva, Irazu and…

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    inconsistency, and coercion (Olmos 34). The expectations that the slave owners had for the Cuban slave society were the “pervasive and overwhelming interests” of the plantation owners (Olmos 34). Despite the government’s effort to dispose of folk Catholicism, slaves developed a way to subtly resist racialist Cuban society in the midst of their unbearable conditions: Afro-Cuban religion. I believe that the strength and resilience shown during this time is likened to the slaves in the United…

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    Maturity of Religiosity within Society. Imagine a world without religion nor law! How can we distinguish from good or bad, right or wrong? Thus, where else can learn our values and our sense of morality without the both. It is a challenging question to answer; nonetheless in this world, we do have religion and a vast majority of individuals learn their core values through the very faith they choose to follow. Religion helps people connect, maintain morality, share values, and become closer…

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    they all have three things in common; the first being worship, the second being a holy book, and lastly a place of worship. All of these religions have subdivisions that are practiced and lesser known. For instance Christianity has Roman Catholicism. Roman Catholicism, is the most practiced form of Christianity.This religion started in Judea and has migrated to, many countries in South America, a few being Brazil, Chile, and Bolivia. The Roman Catholic’s are also found in Southern Europe, and…

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    The Tudor Dynasty ruled England for more than a century with many powerful leaders. Queen Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen, was the most successful and powerful of the Tudors, and also a strong female monarch. Elizabeth was born on September 7, 1533 to King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. As a child, Elizabeth lived apart from her parents at the Royal Palace of Hatfield, where she was exposed to education and politics at a young age. When she was only two years old, her mother was executed on erroneous…

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    The Society of Jesus in the Modern World The Jesuit Order, formally known as the Society of Jesus, was founded in 1540 during the Catholic Church’s Counter Reformation. While many religious orders would focus on solitude, sheltering them from the outside world, the Jesuits embraced it and put a great deal of focus into works that could be done for the betterment of society. Furthermore, the traditions of the Society of Jesus set forth patterns of respect for other cultures, which helped to…

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