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  2. Second Great Awakening - Wikipedia

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    The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival during the late 18th to early 19th century in the United States. It spread religion through revivals and emotional preaching and sparked a number of reform movements. Revivals were a key part of the movement and attracted hundreds of converts to new Protestant denominations.

  3. Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II - Wikipedia

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    The causes of the rebellion included opposition to the Bourbon Reforms, an economic downturn in colonial Peru, and a grassroots revival of Inca cultural identity led by Túpac Amaru II, an indigenous cacique and the leader of the rebellion. While Amaru II was captured and executed by the Spanish in 1781, the rebellion continued for at least ...

  4. Reformation - Wikipedia

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    [2] It is considered one of the events that signified the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the early modern period in Europe. [3] When the Reformation era ended is disputed among modern scholars. Prior to Martin Luther and other Protestant Reformers, there were earlier reform movements within Western Christianity.

  5. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 ...

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    Religious influence on reform movements is key to What Hath God Wrought's interpretation of the era. Howe grounds the Whigs' optimistic culture of self- and societal-improvement in postmillennial Christian thought and notes the overlap between the Second Great Awakening and the reform impulse. [ 23 ]

  6. The Books of Homilies - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Cromwell in 1532/1533 by Hans Holbein the Younger. Following the secession of the Church of England from the jurisdiction of the Church of Rome in 1530, and the designation of the monarch, Henry VIII of England, as the chief power in both the civil and ecclesiastical estates of the realm, it was needed for the establishment of the English Reformation that the reformed Christian ...

  7. Faraizi movement - Wikipedia

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    [2] The leader of the Faraizis was called Ustad or teacher, and his disciples shaagird or students (protégé), instead of using the terms like pir and murid. A person so initiated into the Faraizi fold was called Tawbar Muslim or Mumin. [2] It was a religious reform movement founded in rural areas of East Bengal.

  8. The Stripping of the Altars - Wikipedia

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    It charts how society reacted to Henrician, Edwardian and Elizabethan reform and the changes in religious practice this entailed. Duffy uncovers a succession of records, notes and images that individually reveal an assortment of changes to liturgy and custom but taken together build up to demonstrate a colossal change in English religious practice.

  9. Revolution of the Reforms - Wikipedia

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    General Santiago Mariño, leader of the rebellion. General José Antonio Páez led the reaction against the reformists. General Diego Ibarra. On June 7, 1835, the insurrection broke out in Maracaibo, proclaiming a federal system and General Santiago Mariño as head of the armed movement. Although this uprising failed, it was only the beginning ...