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Unlike the original Sophistic movement of the 5th century BCE, the Second Sophistic was little concerned with politics. But it was, to a large degree, to meet the everyday needs and respond to the practical problems of Greco-Roman society. It came to dominate higher education and left its mark on many forms of literature.
Most disbanded by the 1890s Jewish social movement that sought to create agricultural communities in America. [11] Shalam Colony: New Mexico John B. Newbrough Andrew Howland 1884 1901 A community in which members would live peaceful, vegetarian lifestyles, and where orphaned urban children were to be raised. Ruskin Colony: Tennessee Julius ...
Adam Hochschild posits that this anti-slavery movement is the first peaceful social movement which all modern social movements are built upon. [2] A number of the founders had been meeting at George Yard since 1783, and over four years grew their circle of friends to include Thomas Clarkson, an unknown at that time.
Native American Church, 1800 (19th century) [5] Reformed Mennonites, 1812; Restoration Movement, 1800s; various subgroups of Amish, throughout 19th and 20th centuries; American Unitarian Association, 1825 Unitarian Universalism, 1961 (consolidation of the Universalist Church and the AUA) Latter Day Saint movement/Mormonism, 1830
The period from around AD 50 to 100 was a period when oratorical elements dealing with the first sophists of Greece were reintroduced to the Roman Empire. The province of Asia embraced the Second Sophistic the most. Diococceianus (or Chrysostomos) and Aelius Aristides were popular sophists of the period.
Chautauqua (/ ʃ ə ˈ t ɔː k w ə / shə-TAW-kwə) is an adult education and social movement in the United States that peaked in popularity in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Chautauqua assemblies expanded and spread throughout rural America until the mid-1920s.
Most pastoral Friends groups are part of the Friends United Meeting. They conduct both service projects and evangelism, and are found primarily in Indiana, North Carolina, Iowa, and Ohio. Evangelical Friends strongly emphasize the Bible as a source of inspiration and guidance, considering it the ultimate authority for faith and practice.
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