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Religion & Religious Movements
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Dorothy Day 1897–1980Ideas & MediaCo-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, combining religious faith with radical commitments to peace and the poor.Mary Baker Eddy 1821–1910Ideas & MediaFounder of Christian Science and a major female religious leader and publisher.Jonathan Edwards 1703–1758Ideas & MediaTheologian and preacher whose role in the Great Awakening shaped American evangelical religion.Elijah Muhammad 1897–1975Ideas & MediaLeader who built the Nation of Islam into a major religious and Black nationalist movement.Jerry Falwell 1933–2007Ideas & MediaPastor and political organizer who helped make conservative evangelicalism a major Republican constituency.Billy Graham 1918–2018Ideas & MediaEvangelist whose mass crusades, media reach, and presidential relationships made him a defining figure in modern American Protestantism.Abraham Joshua Heschel 1907–1972Ideas & MediaRabbi and theologian who linked Jewish thought with civil-rights and antiwar activism.L. Ron Hubbard 1911–1986Ideas & MediaScience-fiction writer who founded Scientology, creating a controversial and internationally influential American religious movement.Anne Hutchinson 1591–1643Ideas & MediaReligious dissenter whose trial and banishment exposed tensions over authority, gender, and conscience in Puritan New England.Aimee Semple McPherson 1890–1944Ideas & MediaEvangelist and media innovator who founded the Foursquare Church and pioneered religious broadcasting and celebrity ministry.Thomas Merton 1915–1968Ideas & MediaTrappist monk and writer whose books popularized contemplative spirituality, social criticism, and interfaith dialogue.Reinhold Niebuhr 1892–1971Ideas & MediaTheologian whose Christian realism influenced American foreign policy, civil rights, and public ethics.Norman Vincent Peale 1898–1993Ideas & MediaMinister whose bestselling positive-thinking message joined American Protestantism with modern self-help culture.William J. Seymour 1870–1922Ideas & MediaPreacher who led the Azusa Street Revival, a foundational event in the global growth of Pentecostal Christianity.Fulton J. Sheen 1895–1979Ideas & MediaCatholic bishop whose radio and television programs made him one of America’s first major religious media personalities.Joseph Smith 1805–1844Ideas & MediaFounder of the Latter Day Saint movement, one of the most consequential religions to originate in the United States.Roger Williams 1603–1683Ideas & MediaFounder of Rhode Island and early advocate of religious liberty and separation of church and state.Brigham Young 1801–1877Ideas & MediaReligious and territorial leader who directed Mormon migration and settlement in the American West.