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...Religion (1520s–1710s). After prolonged religious conflict, a period of relative harmony allowed Christian Europeans to think of themselves as superior to those who weren’t Christian in Africa and Asia. Eventually, Europeans would use their own religious and cultural standards as a key measurement of defining what, and whom, was ‘civilised’ or not to them. Systems...

...religions, now a dying faith, was invented in Manchester by Ann Lee, who brought, through the usual persecutions, Shakerism to such spiritual importance as it has now lost in these States. Only those who have known the Shakers, with their good lives and gentle ways, can regret with me the decline of the celibate communism which their foundress imagined in her marital...

...religion). * Colour bar In Britain this was a social system (in contrast to legal segregation in America) which meant that non-white people experienced discriminatory treatment or disadvantage in housing, employment, leisure, and other areas of life. * communal violence Is a form of violence that is perpetrated across ethnic or communal lines. * compensation claims At the...

...religion will subdue the world, I own that it is with a somewhat saddened heart that I pass my thoughts around the globe, and consider how distant is yet that triumph. There are the realms on which the crescent beams, the monstrous many-headed gods of India, the Chinaman's heathenism, the African's devil-rites. These are, to a large extent, principalities and powers of...