Sentences with phrase «religious upheaval»

Born shortly after the French Revolution, in a part of northern Italy then administered by the Austrian Empire, Rosmini's life would be shaped by the political and religious upheavals of 19th - century Europe.

But he continued to believe that the great religious upheaval in the Christian West at the dawn of the modern era had involved both the necessity of reform and a division at once scandalous and tragic.

Reading fiction set in places of current political or religious upheaval allows me to feel like I understand complicated situations a little better.

Churches tend to ebb and flow with generations: Chapels close after neighborhoods are redeveloped, cathedrals are abandoned after religious upheaval.

Ahmad lived at a time of great religious upheaval, said Akbar Ahmed, chair of Islamic Studies at American University.

Brooke brings out the historical complexities of such a claim, reminding us of the political drama that accompanied the religious upheavals, and which thereby had its implications in a varied receptivity to the «new science».

Jesus ruffled the establishment for initiating a religious upheaval that he got crucified by the status quo.

In the religious upheaval the powers become free.

Culture is the stabilization of the life impulse and life forms between two religious upheavals.

Nonetheless, Eire's majestically comprehensive survey leaves no doubt about the enduring consequences, for good and ill, of the religious upheavals of the sixteenth and subsequent centuries.

Religious upheaval is not new in American history.

Europa Universalis IV is a game about colonization, enlightenment, overthrowing tyranny, religious upheaval, nation - building, mercantilism, piracy, feuding monarchies, and political intrigue — or none of that, if you feel like ignoring it.

As a follower of Savonarola, he also shared in the religious upheavals that, ultimately, undermined Florence as a city - state and an ideal.