Word: protestante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unequal Treatment. Relations between Ulster's 1,000,000 Protestants and its Catholic minority of 500,000 have been severely strained ever since Northern Ireland was separated from the South. In the past ten months, however, sectarian bitterness has mounted, as Catholics intensified their protest against a system that...
The new Christians, whether Catholic or Protestant,* were asked to give up many of their tribal cultural traditions. Not only were the most dehumanizing practices proscribed-ritual murder, human sacrifice, slavery-but also many other institutions that were an intricate part of the fabric of communal life. Polygamy was almost...
* Protestant and Anglican churches in Africa today claim a total membership of 22 million, not including nearly 7 million members of more than 5,000 independent African sects, some of them only semi-Christian.
...will be "credal": they will not, as groups, adhere to a fixed creed. On the other hand, nine million Lutherans with an orthodox set of beliefs that include such traditional doctrines as the Trinity and original sin would occupy a unique and important position between the rest of American Protestantism and Roman Catholicism...
"Alcohol is seen as an agent which lubricates the wheels of commerce and catalyzes social intercourse. Marijuana is just for fun and therefore is in conflict with powerful vestiges of the Protestant Ethic," he commented.