3. Which two major religions dominated society in Elizabethan England? Briefly explain the differences between

Answer 1

There was only one dominant religion during the Elizabethan era: Christianity.When Elizabeth was born the Christian church in England was run by the Pope in Rome and known as the Catholic Church. Elizabeth 's father, King Henry the 8th broke with the Catholic Church in order to gain a divorce from his deeply Catholic wife Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn. He was excommunicated (thrown out) of the Catholic church and became head of the Church of England (Anglican) The Anglican denomination, as well as a number of other denominations loosely called protestant, fought with the Catholic power base in England for power and control. Therefore Catholics and Protestants were the two major (Christian) denominations that dominated society in Elizabethan England. At the time the major differences between the two were that the Catholic Church was ruled by the Pope in Rome while the protestant churches were governed by church and royal figures within England, and the Catholic church allowed for and promoted religious icons (works of art depicting Christ) while the protestand churches frowned on representations of religious figures within the Church. These may seem like minor differences buut they resulted in years of bloodshed and war as Protestant and Catholic factions fought it out; sometimes over matters of faith, but more often over matters of property, money and power.

Answer 2

Major Religions Of England

Answer 3

During the British Mandate, even well into the 1940s, Arabs were allowed into "Palestine" in huge numbers without visa or passport, especially from the Hauran District of Syria, while the British continued to do everything possible to prevent Jews from entering, even down to the last minute when all attempts were made to deny entry to thousands of Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis. Only in 1948 were Jewish refugees allowed free entry to their homeland, and that was because Israel had, once again, become an independent nation. The Arabs of Ottoman Palestine may have had certain attachments to the fields they were cultivating but at the same time they were destroying the Land. Parkes stated that "in the wars between villages it was far too common a practice to cut down fruit trees and olives and to destroy crops, and this in the end caused as much loss of life through hunger as was caused by the actual casualties of fighting." He concluded that "in spite of the immense fertility of the soil, it is probable that in the first half of the nineteenth century the population sank to the lowest level it had ever known in historic times." Palestinian leaders claim that Israel is built on Arab land, when the truth is that eyewitnesses such as Mark Twain and Rev. Manning of England who visited the Holy Land in the 19th century wrote that the land was barren and empty. The population then was less that 5% of today's population. In fact, Joan Peters in her book "From Time Immemorial" tells us that the return of the Jews in 1800's and early 1900's created jobs, and Arabs from impoverished areas were drawn into the Holy Land for work. Peters also tells us that in 1948 so many Arabs were new to the area and could not qualify for the UN requirement for refugee status (people forced to leave "permanent" or "habitual" homes) that they added a clause permitting refugee status for Arabs who had been there as few as two years. Thus, the Zionist slogan "The Land without a people for the people without a land" was absolutely correct. The slogan did not mean that there were no inhabitants at all in Palestine, it just indicated that the non-Jewish population constituted a conglomeration of dozens of heterogeneous groups of residents having very little in common, i.e. not constituting a single nation, a people. These residents were not united by any specific national idea. Professor of history Reverend James Parkes wrote that the Balfour declaration for the first time established a "unit called Palestine on a political map. There was no such thing historically as a 'Palestinian Arab', and there was no feeling of unity among 'the Arabs' of this newly defined area." .

Answer 4

There was only one RELIGION: Chritianity. Perhaps you are confusing Denominations: Catholic and Protestant. But there were MANY protestant denominations: what people wrongfully call "Pilgrims" or "Puritans" was but one of them.

Answer 5

wrong it was catholic and protestant