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Anglicanism
Anglicanism, also often referred to as the Anglican Communion, came into being as a result of the English Reformation, part of the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century in Europe. This entry briefly traces the history of Anglicanism from its origins to the present day and discusses its relationship to religious doctrines concerning war and peace and how it has interpreted those ideas, particularly in the turbulent 19th and 20th centuries. The entry concludes with a look at present-day Anglicanism’s engagement with activism for peace and justice.
Origins
The familiar story of England’s King Henry VIII, wanting an annulment of his marriage to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, so that he could marry Anne Boleyn and produce an heir, ends with Henry breaking from Rome and ...
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- École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr (France)
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- Environment
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- Ecological Causes of War
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- Gulf War Syndrome
- Health Consequences of War
- Nuclear Weapons, Environmental Impact of Building
- Nuclear Winter
- Oil, Military Use of
- Uranium Mining
- Water Security
- Gender
- “Comfort Women” (Sex Slaves) in World War II
- “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
- Camp Followers
- Combat Ban
- Dahomey Women Warriors
- Feminist Understandings of War
- Gendering of War
- Homosexuality and the Military
- Hypermasculinity
- Military Bases, Gender at
- Military Families, Stresses on
- Military Sexual Trauma
- Prostitution
- Rape as a Weapon of War
- Rosie the Riveter
- Sexual Minorities and War
- Sexual Violence
- Women and National Liberation Movements
- Women and Peacekeeping
- Women and the U.S. Military
- Women as Victims of War
- Women Warriors
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- War Photography
- War Poetry
- War Posters
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- Abu Ghraib
- Alamo, the
- Allende, Salvador, Overthrow of
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- Arlington National Cemetery
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- Partition of India
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- September 11, 2001
- Sharpeville, South Africa: Protests and Shootings
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- Srebrenica
- Stalingrad
- Tet Offensive (Vietnam)
- Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
- Unknown Soldiers
- War Crime Tribunals
- War Crimes and War Criminals
- War Museums
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- Yasukuni Shrine
- Multiple Impacts of War
- “Comfort Women” (Sex Slaves) in World War II
- Hibakusha (Atomic Bomb Survivors)
- Abu Ghraib
- Animals (Use in War)
- Atrocities in Wartime
- Biological Weapons
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- Chemical and Biological War
- Chemical Weapons
- Child Soldiers, Use of
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- “Long Peace”
- Alternative Defense
- Balance of Power
- Chemical and Biological Weapons, Abolition of
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- Containment
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- Realism
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- Seville Statement on Violence
- Structural Violence
- Track II Diplomacy
- Psychology
- Aggression
- Altruism
- Animal Behavior
- Attribution Error
- Biochemical Factors in Aggression and Violence
- Cognitive Dissonance
- Combat Exhilaration and Combat Addiction
- Combat Trauma and Fatigue
- Dehumanizing the Enemy
- Desensitization
- Distance Effect
- Emotional Withdrawal
- Emotions
- Empathy
- Enemy Making
- Evil
- Evolutionary Psychology
- Fear of War
- Fight-or-Flight Response
- Group Absolution
- Groupthink
- Guilt and Remorse
- Hate
- Honor
- Horror of Combat
- Killing, Burden of
- Killing, Societal Fascination With
- Milgram Experiments
- Military Families, Stresses on
- Morality
- Operant Conditioning
- Peer Pressure
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Psychological Warfare
- Psychopaths and Sociopaths in Wartime
- Punishment
- Rationalization and Acceptance
- Revenge
- Sanitization of War
- Soldier Suicides
- Stockholm Syndrome
- Testosterone
- Recovery and Reconciliation
- Religious Traditions
- Al Qaeda
- Anabaptists
- Anglicanism
- Bahá’í Faith
- Baptists
- Bible
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- Catholicism, Roman
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons)
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- Mennonites
- Methodists
- Peace Church
- Pentecostalism
- Presbyterianism and Congregationalism
- Religion and War
- Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
- Salafism and Wahhabism
- Shintoism
- Sikhism
- Sufism
- Unitarian Universalism
- Social Identities
- Sociology and Anthropology
- War, Conduct of
- Authorization to Use Military Force
- Chain of Command
- Chemical Weapons
- Citizen Soldiers
- Command and Control
- Conscription and Mobilization of Soldiers
- Counterinsurgency
- Covert Operations
- Cyber Espionage
- Cyberterrorism
- Dead, Treatment of
- Declaration of War
- Demobilization
- Disinformation
- Drones
- Intent in War
- Interservice Rivalries
- Jamming Signals
- Just War
- Military Bases, Politics and
- Military Courts and Tribunals
- Military Geography
- Military Policing
- Military Recruitment Advertising
- Military Recruitment Strategies
- Morality
- Multilateral Forces
- Political Will for War
- Prisoners of War, Treatment of
- Privatization and Private-Sector Military Contractors
- Professional Military Forces
- Psychological Warfare
- Psychopaths and Sociopaths in Wartime
- Revolution in Military Affairs
- Rules of Engagement
- Small Arms
- Smuggling
- Stealth Technology
- Strategic Bombing
- Suicide Bombers
- Surveillance
- Surveillance: Nazi Germany
- Torture
- Uniform Code of Military Justice
- Violence, Second-Order Effects
- War Crimes and War Criminals
- Women Warriors
- Wounded, Treatment of
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