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English Dissenters were Protestant Christians who chose to worship outside of the established Church of England in the early modern period. English Dissent mainly followed two streams, one of which was radical and influenced by continental Anabaptism, and the other was Calvinist and Puritan. The freedom of religious practice that was granted during the English Republic was followed by a period of persecution under the Restoration when the term “Dissenter” emerged to stigmatize clergymen and their followers who resisted the Act of Uniformity and left the established Anglican Church.
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Bragagnolo, M. (2019). Dissenters from the Anglican Church. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_1132-1
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