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Religion & Religious Movements

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Roger Williams 1603–1683Religion & Religious MovementsFounder of Rhode Island and early advocate of religious liberty and separation of church and state.Jerry Falwell 1933–2007Religion & Religious MovementsPastor and political organizer who helped make conservative evangelicalism a major Republican constituency.Anne Hutchinson 1591–1643Religion & Religious MovementsReligious dissenter whose trial and banishment exposed tensions over authority, gender, and conscience in Puritan New England.Dorothy Day 1897–1980Religion & Religious MovementsCo-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, combining religious faith with radical commitments to peace and the poor.Elijah Muhammad 1897–1975Religion & Religious MovementsLeader who built the Nation of Islam into a major religious and Black nationalist movement.Ralph Reed b. 1961Religion & Religious MovementsBuilt the Christian Coalition and organised evangelical voters into a Republican bloc.Stephen S. Wise 1874–1949Religion & Religious MovementsFounder of the Free Synagogue and the World Jewish Congress, and the leading American Jewish voice of the Holocaust yearsAbraham Joshua Heschel 1907–1972Religion & Religious MovementsRabbi and theologian who linked Jewish thought with civil-rights and antiwar activism.