A View of Religions, the Glossary
A View of Religions is an 18th-century comprehensive survey of world religions by the American author, Hannah Adams.[1]
Table of Contents
32 relations: Baltimore, Boston, Charles Chauncy (1705–1787), Christopher Gore, Edmund Quincy (1703–1788), Franklin, Massachusetts, Governor of Rhode Island, Hannah Adams, Harrison Gray Otis (politician), Harvard College, Henry Ware (Unitarian), Hingham, Massachusetts, James Manning (minister), John Adams, John Carroll (archbishop), John Hancock, Joseph Willard, Malden, Massachusetts, Maryland, Massachusetts, Medfield, Massachusetts, Moses Brown, Nathanael Emmons, Nathaniel Appleton, Newburyport, Massachusetts, Providence, Rhode Island, Religion, Rhode Island College, Samuel Adams, Thomas Broughton (writer), Vice President of the United States, William Bradford (Rhode Island politician).
- 1784 in Massachusetts
- 1784 non-fiction books
- Dictionaries
- History books about religion
Baltimore
Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland.
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Boston
Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
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Charles Chauncy (1705–1787)
Charles Chauncy (1 January 1705 – 10 February 1787) was an American Congregational clergyman.
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Christopher Gore
Christopher Gore (September 21, 1758 – March 1, 1827) was a prominent Massachusetts lawyer, Federalist politician, and U.S. diplomat.
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Edmund Quincy (1703–1788)
Edmund Quincy IV (1703-1788) was a prominent Boston merchant during much of the 18th century.
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Franklin, Massachusetts
The Town of Franklin is a city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Governor of Rhode Island
The governor of Rhode Island is the head of government of the U.S. state of Rhode Island and serves as commander-in-chief of the state's Army National Guard and Air National Guard.
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Hannah Adams
Hannah Adams (October 2, 1755December 15, 1831) was an American author of books on comparative religion and early United States history.
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Harrison Gray Otis (politician)
Harrison Gray Otis (October 8, 1765October 28, 1848), was a businessman, lawyer, and politician, becoming one of the most important leaders of the United States' first political party, the Federalists.
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Harvard College
Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University, a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
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Henry Ware (Unitarian)
Henry Ware (April 1, 1764 – July 12, 1845) was a preacher and theologian influential in the formation of Unitarianism and the American Unitarian Association in the United States.
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Hingham, Massachusetts
Hingham is a town in metropolitan Greater Boston on the South Shore of the U.S. state of Massachusetts in northern Plymouth County.
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James Manning (minister)
James Manning (October 22, 1738 – July 29, 1791) was an American Baptist minister, educator and legislator from Providence, Rhode Island.
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John Adams
John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801.
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John Carroll (archbishop)
John Carroll (January 8, 1735 – December 3, 1815) was an American Catholic prelate who served as the first Bishop of Baltimore, the first diocese in the new United States.
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John Hancock
John Hancock (– October 8, 1793) was an American Founding Father, merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution.
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Joseph Willard
Joseph Willard (December 29, 1738 – September 25, 1804) was an American Congregational clergyman and academic.
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Malden, Massachusetts
Malden is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Maryland
Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.
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Massachusetts
Massachusetts (script), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.
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Medfield, Massachusetts
Medfield is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Moses Brown
Moses Brown (September 23, 1738 – September 6, 1836) was an American abolitionist and industrialist from New England who funded the design and construction of some of the first factories for spinning machines during the American industrial revolution, including the Slater Mill which was the first modern factory in America.
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Nathanael Emmons
Nathanael Emmons, sometimes spelled Nathaniel Emmons, (April 20, 1745 – September 23, 1840) was an American Congregational minister and influential theologian of the New Divinity school.
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Nathaniel Appleton
Nathaniel Appleton (9 December 1693 – 9 February 1784) was a Congregational minister in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Newburyport, Massachusetts
Newburyport is a coastal city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, northeast of Boston.
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Providence, Rhode Island
Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island.
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Religion
Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements—although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.
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Rhode Island College
Rhode Island College (RIC) is a public college in Rhode Island, United States, with much of the land in Providence, and other parts in North Providence.
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Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams (– October 2, 1803) was an American statesman, political philosopher, and a Founding Father of the United States.
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Thomas Broughton (writer)
Thomas Broughton (1704–1774), was an English clergyman, biographer, and miscellaneous writer, whose works include the libretto to Handel's Hercules.
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Vice President of the United States
The vice president of the United States (VPOTUS) is the second-highest officer in the executive branch of the U.S. federal government, after the president of the United States, and ranks first in the presidential line of succession.
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William Bradford (Rhode Island politician)
William Bradford (November 4, 1729 – July 6, 1808) was a physician, lawyer, and politician, serving as United States Senator from Rhode Island and deputy governor of the state.
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See also
1784 in Massachusetts
- 1784 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
- A View of Religions
1784 non-fiction books
- A View of Religions
- Book of Discipline (United Methodist)
- Oryctographia Carniolica
- The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke
- The Sunday Service of the Methodists
Dictionaries
- A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations
- A View of Religions
- Anglo-Norman Dictionary
- Dictionary
- Dictionary of Old Norse Prose
- Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
- Dictionary software
- Farhang-e-Asifiya
- Historical dictionary
- Historical linguistics
- Langenscheidt
- List of Scarecrow Press historical dictionaries
- List of dictionaries by number of words
- Lists of dictionaries
- Online dictionaries
- Oxford dictionaries
- Pigafetta's dictionary
- Sahi Shabda
- Shemot Devarim
- The Dictionary Project
- The First Belarusian Dictionary by Ivan Nasovič
- Tripitaka Koreana
- Vocable (lexicography)
- Whistling in the Dark (Buechner book)
- Wishful Thinking (book)
History books about religion
- A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations
- A History of God
- A View of Religions
- Anacalypsis
- Europe's Inner Demons
- Haran Gawaita
- Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
- How Jesus Became God
- La Cité antique
- Occult Imperium
- Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
- Shamans (Hutton book)
- Studies in the History of Medieval Religion
- The Battle for God
- The Darkened Room
- The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles
- The Seekers (book)
- The Triumph of Christianity
- The Triumph of the Moon
- Voodoos and Obeahs