Religious uniformity

Ten Protestant Martyrs, including Richard Woodman, were burnt to death in 1557 for not espousing the official state religion

Religious uniformity occurs when government is used to promote one state religion, denomination, or philosophy to the exclusion of all other religious beliefs.

History

Religious uniformity was common in many modern theocratic and atheistic governments around the world until fairly modern times. The modern concept of a separate civil government was relatively unknown until expounded upon by Roger Williams, a Christian minister, in The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution (1644) shortly after he founded the American colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in 1636.^[1]^[2]

In the United States, the First Amendment to the Constitution (1791) prohibits the federal government from establishing or prohibiting a religion, and in 1947 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states cannot create established state churches in Everson v. Board of Education.

References

↑ Roger Williams, James Calvin Davis (editor), On religious liberty: selections from the works of Roger Williams, (Harvard University Press, 2008), ISBN 0-674-02685-3, ISBN 9780674026858(accessed July 11, 2009 on Google Books)
↑ James Emanuel Ernst, Roger Williams, New England Firebrand (Macmillan Co., Rhode Island, 1932), pg. 246

Religious persecution and discrimination

By group	Ahmadiyya Atheism Bahá'í Buddhism Catholic Christianity persecution Hinduism persecution Falun Gong Islam persecution Judaism religious antisemitism persecution Jehovah's Witness Mormonism Neopaganism Rastafari Protestantism Shi'a Islam Zoroastrianism

Methods	Censorship Deprogramming Desecration Discrimination Forced conversion Genocide Intolerance Pogrom Political abuse of psychiatry Segregation State atheism State religion Terrorism Violence War

Events	Decline of Greco-Roman polytheism Expulsion of the Moriscos Decline of Buddhism in India Decline of Hinduism in Pakistan Cromwellian conquest of Ireland Cultural Revolution French Revolutionary dechristianisation European wars of religion French Wars of Religion Inquisition 1860 Lebanon conflict The Holocaust Armenian Genocide Pontic Greek Genocide Albigensian Crusade Aragonese Crusade Northern Crusades Crusades Palestinian exodus Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries Muslim conquest in the Indian subcontinent Anti-Muslim violence in India Direct Action Day Noakhali riots Partition of India 1971 Bangladesh genocide Rape during the Bangladesh Liberation War Persecution of pagans by the Christian Roman Empire Saxon Wars Soviet persecution 1917–1921 1921–1928 1928–1941 1958–1964 1970–1987 legislation Treatment of Christians in the Eastern Bloc Kulturkampf Test Act Thirty Years' War

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Religious uniformity

History

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