The Salvation Army is an international movement that helps people who are poverty stricken or poor due to other reasons. ... Booth's dedication and passion led to many disagreements with church leaders thought out England. ... However, the millions that it had accumulated to have such a dedicated cause that not even the death of their leader could discourage the militaries success. ... People who belong to the Salvation Army serve as administrators, teachers, social workers, counselors, youth leaders, and musicians. ...

• Word Count: 1692
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Key People Peter was the leader of the early church. ... The movement in Ireland was from Paganism to Christianity, while the movement in Acts was from Judaism and Paganism to Christianity. Pentecost was the first main movement in the early Church, it meant that all men would be involved and this reflected the movement itself. ... The Celtic mission was also successful in its movement. ... For Paul, a tradition was to revisit the churches he had established and appoint presbyters and leaders. ...

• Word Count: 1807
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The cultural and social vortex created by the founders of Passion Christian Conferences precipitates an insincere form of worship and a false religious movement. ... This relaxation of conservative religious constraints in the counterculture movement empowered the founders of movements like Passion to recreate a new form of worship in their own light. ... Passion leaders utilize social media, television, and the Internet, as a mechanism to engage the cultural and social themes of the young generation. ... Oppenheimer states that in order for a movement or religion to be sustainable in a new cu...

• Word Count: 1256
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Graduate

In his letter to the Philippians, Paul references his coworkers, Euodias and Syntyche, who were leaders and cofounders of the Church (Holy, 798). ... Christabel Pankhurst is another example of a remarkable Christian leader. She led the British suffrage movement, faithfully proclaiming God's Word the whole way. Why should Christians applaud the works of these women leaders, yet deny other women the right of preaching and leadership in their domestic home churches? ... If for some reason, the role of a woman leader would not adequately evangelize to nonbelievers, a man should take compl...

• Word Count: 1399
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

THE ROMAN CATHOLIC The Roman Catholic Church played a very significant role in the crusades movement that cannot go unmentioned. ... (Riley-Smith, 2009)The Leader of the Muslims who took Jerusalem, Saladin, allowed European pilgrims and also Christians to enter Jerusalem The Fourth Crusade "With each crusade relationship between the Byzantines and the western forces became more estranged." ... The crusades marched across many Muslim territories with the purpose of taking back areas that were considered holy but looking at the movement from another perspective the crusades can be described as ...

• Word Count: 1377
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography

Next there was the building of the church and how every tiny detail in movement was significant. ... Peter was the first leader of the new church and preached several sermons proclaiming the Good News. ... The Jewish leaders, who were enraged, stoned him to death. ... The movement that Jesus started in still spreading out around the world. ...

• Word Count: 1359
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

With each change in the throne, they experienced a different view of religion, depending upon their leader. ... Until Henry's death, the reformation was more of a political movement than theological. ... However she was successful in exiling many of the leaders of the Church of England to the European continent who did not want to return to Roman Catholic. ... Upon Elizabeth's death, James I came to the throne and would have nothing to do with the even more assertive Puritans, so he would have their more vocal leaders put away. ... The only way to enter into the church was to kee...

• Word Count: 1873
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

At his death in 632, Muhammad was the leader of an Arab state growing rapidly in power. ... The most powerful force remaining in Rome was its bishop, who became the leader of the Western church as waves of invading tribes swept into Europe and as the political power of Constantinople in the west declined. ... The Shiites are the only surviving major sectarian movement in Islam. ...

• Word Count: 1764
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Ours is a time of continual movement, which often leads to restlessness, with the risk of 'doing for the sake of doing'. We need to organize the group with different activities and different purposes like Bible study group, the group devotion to the Mary, the youth movement group, choir group The people in different age can join to different group so that make for the parish have atmosphere or alive. ... Only with the basic attitudes of openness, patience, insight, prudence and wisdom, consistency and commitment can the priest be a good communicator and leader. ...

• Word Count: 1317
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For instance, Confucian teaches that good government is important and leaders should not be chosen because of relationships but on the basis of characteristics of ability and virtue and that the purpose of government should be for the happiness and total welfare of the people. ... My interest has been peaked to the point where I plan to study more about Islam, specifically the Islam movement in the United States. ... Lastly, I believe that in today's society there is so much negatively surrounding religion, religious organizations, and religious leaders that it is understanda...

• Word Count: 1758
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In order to realize the importance and to understand the problems of the Anabaptists, we need to look at the causes of the eventual movement from a historical perspective. ... He was another leader who wanted Anabaptism known to everyone. ...

• Word Count: 1260
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The heresy, Arianism, was a semi-popular movement during the early patristic period that was started by the Egyptian theologian Arius. ... It was in the spring of 325 when the leaders of Christianity began to converge upon Nicaea, the city designated for the Council because of its accessibility from the main centers of the Catholic world at the time. ...

• Word Count: 1456
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Although He never intended to create Christianity, He began a religious movement that turned into Christianity (Simmons Study Guide, 16). ... Perhaps many more religions will continue to be created as other charismatic leaders, such as Christ, deepen the exploration of their own identity and relationships. ...

• Word Count: 1331
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The heresy, Arianism, was a semi-popular movement during the early patristic period that was started by the Egyptian theologian Arius. ... It was in the spring of 325 when the leaders of Christianity began to converge upon Nicaea, the city designated for the Council because of its accessibility from the main centers of the Catholic world at the time. ...

• Word Count: 1568
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Although He never intended to create Christianity, He began a religious movement that turned into Christianity (Simmons Study Guide, 16). ... Perhaps many more religions will continue to be created as other charismatic leaders, such as Christ, deepen the exploration of their own identity and relationships. ...

• Word Count: 1255
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power;...have, in turn, divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good" (Madison, 1787). ... Also Martin Luther King, a reverend, led the civil rights movement in a hostile culture to gain rights for the minority. These were all Christian leaders, figh...

• Word Count: 2044
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

They noted in lurid, breathless detail the bizarre practices of the faithful--their purple face-dressings, their surgical castrations their neo-Maoist uniforms and haircuts--while making only passing reference to the sect's "gnostic" or "neo-gnostic" doctrine. and, of course, eager to shoehorn Heaven's Gate into the received template of crazed-cult stories, reporters made much of leader Marshall Apple-white's "messianic" charisma, his reported breakdowns, and his homosexual affairs: surely there must be a megalomaniac at the center of all this, bullying and exhorting his lost, c...

• Word Count: 1846
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Religion Religion in the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's was seen as a spiritual movement and today since times have changed it is more what God can do for me than what I can do for God. ... Televangelists such as Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and James Robison have become opinion leaders for the New Christian Right, both on and off their television programs. ...

• Word Count: 1583
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School