Nonconformism in England

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Nonconformism in England was a religious movement comprising Protestant groups that rejected full conformity to the doctrines and practices of the established Church of England, advocating independent worship and church governance.

All labels observed (10)

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Protestant movement
religious movement
advocated freedom of worship
liberty of conscience
separation of church and state in ecclesiastical matters
voluntary church membership
alsoKnownAs Nonconformism in England
surface form: Dissent in England

Nonconformism in England
surface form: English Nonconformity
associatedWith Acts of Uniformity
surface form: Act of Uniformity 1662

Clarendon Code
Sunday schools in England
Test Act 1673
surface form: Test Acts

Toleration Act 1689
abolitionist movement in Britain
chapel culture in England
temperance movement in Britain
characterizedBy independent church governance
independent worship
rejection of the authority of the established Church of England in matters of church governance
rejection of the authority of the established Church of England in matters of worship
country England
emergedAfter English Reformation
hadDemographicBase industrial working classes in some regions of England
urban middle classes in England
historicalPeriod post-Reformation England
includes Baptists
surface form: Baptists in England

Congregationalists in England
English Presbyterians outside the Church of England
English Independents
surface form: Independents in England

Methodist churches
surface form: Methodists in England

Persecution of Quakers in England
surface form: Quakers in England

Unitarianism
surface form: Unitarians in England
influenced 19th-century social reform in Britain
British liberal politics
English education reforms
influencedBy Calvinism
surface form: Calvinist theology

Evangelical Revival in Britain
legalStatus subject to civil disabilities in early modern period
opposedTo Elizabethan religious settlement
surface form: establishment of the Church of England

full conformity to the Church of England
religious tests for public office in Britain
relatedTo Dissenting academies in England
Nonconformist conscience
Puritanism
religiousTradition Protestantism
timePeriod 17th century
18th century
19th century
early 20th century

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Separatists broaderMovement Nonconformism in England
George Fox hasCause Nonconformism in England
this entity surface form: English Dissenters
George Fox participantIn Nonconformism in England
this entity surface form: English Dissenting movement
Bunhill Fields associatedWith Nonconformism in England
this entity surface form: English Dissenters
Clarendon Code enforcement opposedGroup Nonconformism in England
subject surface form: Clarendon Code
this entity surface form: Nonconformists
Clarendon Code enforcement opposedBy Nonconformism in England
subject surface form: Clarendon Code
this entity surface form: Protestant Dissenters in England
Henry Barrow movement Nonconformism in England
this entity surface form: English Nonconformism
Northampton Academy associatedWithMovement Nonconformism in England
this entity surface form: English Nonconformity
Congregational churches in the United Kingdom tradition Nonconformism in England
this entity surface form: English Nonconformism
Congregational churches in the United Kingdom partOf Nonconformism in England
this entity surface form: Protestant Nonconformity in the United Kingdom
English Presbyterian Church partOf Nonconformism in England
this entity surface form: English Nonconformity
Nonconformism in England alsoKnownAs Nonconformism in England
this entity surface form: English Nonconformity
Nonconformism in England alsoKnownAs Nonconformism in England
this entity surface form: Dissent in England
Isaac Watts movement Nonconformism in England
this entity surface form: Nonconformism