The term Movement has a variety of different meanings related to motion: Physical movement between points in space ("A to B"). The amount of movement is called distance. Together with a direction you have a displacement. The rate of movement is the speed. Again, with the direction, you get the velocity. Active movement is called locomotion. See also under motion and transport. In biology movement refers to both intracellular movement and the movement of the organism or its parts and organs (See animal movement {f

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This movement began among non-Hasidic Jews as a response to the social changes brought about by The Enlightenment, and the corresponding Haskalah movement among many European Jews. In this period of history anti-Semitism, assimilation of many Jews into Christianity, poverty, and the poor living conditions of many Jews in the Pale of Settlement caused severe tension and disappointment. Many of the institutions of Lithuanian Jewry were beginning to break up. Many religious Jews felt that their way of life was slipping away from them, observanc ...

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Movements in the Catholic Church are groups of church members following a specific spirituality given to them by the founder of their movement. In the case of officially recognized movements, this specificity never finds expression in rejection or overemphasis of certain teachings of the Magisterium but constitute a specific way of Christian life. Church Movements include Communion and Liberation Regnum Christi ...

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The Camphill Movement is an international movement of therapeutic intentional communities for those with special needs or disabilities. Unsalaried workers and their families live with people with special needs in sheltered village communities. The movement was founded in Aberdeen, Scotland by the Austrian paediatric Doctor Karl König in 1940. It is inspired by Christian ideals and the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner. Other related archives1940, Aberdeen, Austrian, Rudolf Steiner, Scotla

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The Confessing Movement is a neo-Evangelical movement within several mainline Protestant denominations to return those churches to what the members of the movement see as theological orthodoxy. It relates and cross pollinates with other conservative Christian movements such as Evangelicals, Pentecostals, Holiness groups, Anabaptists, and Fundamentalists. Its members have a stated committment to remain in their home denominations, unless forced out, to stay and work for reform from within, in contrast to what they see as other m ...

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• Confessing Movement - The Confessing Movement in the churches
• Confessing Movement - Institute on Religion and Democracy
• Confessing Movement - United States of America
• Confessing Movement - Presbyterian
• Confessing Movement - Methodist
• Confessing Movement - Episcopalian/Anglican
• Confessing Movement - Church of the Brethren
• Confessing Movement - Lutheran
• Confessing Movement - United Church of Christ
• Confessing Movement - Australia
• Confessing Movement - Uniting Church in Australia

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Bhakti movements are Hindureligious movements in which the main spiritual practice is the fostering of loving devotion to God, called bhakti. They are monotheistic movements generally devoted to worship of Shiva or Vishnu or Shakti. Sikhism evoloved out of the Bhakti movement. Bhakti movement - Origins. The Bhakti Movement was essentially founded in South India and later spread to the North during the late medieval period. The notion of 'Bhakti' (loosely translated as devotional love to God) i ...

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• Bhakti movement - Rama bhakti
• Bhakti movement - Vaishnava bhakti
• Bhakti movement - Influences
• Bhakti movement - Bibliography

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The Chipko movement was a group of villagers in the Uttarakhand region of India who opposed commercial logging. The movement is best known for its tactic of hugging trees to prevent them being cut down. This gave rise to the term tree hugger for environmentalists. Also, it was notable in that the movement was led by women who were influenced by Gandhi. The name of the movement comes from the Hindi word for 'embrace', as the villagers hugged the trees, and prevented the contractors' from felling them. Chipko ...

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• Chipko movement - Was It Part of a Hierarchey
• Chipko movement - When was the First Chipko Action?
• Chipko movement - History

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The Hebrew term mussar, while literally derived from a word meaning "tradition", usually refers to Jewish ethics in general, or (and more commonly) refers to the Jewish ethics education movement that developed in the 19th century Orthodox Jewish European community, particularly in Lithuania. Mussar is a path of contemplative practices and exercises that have evolved over the past thousand years to help an individual soul to pinpoint and then to break through the barriers that surround and obstruct the flow of inner light in our lives. Mussar is a treasury of techniques and understandings that offers imm ...

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• Mussar movement - Zundel Salant
• Mussar movement - Yisrael Lipkin
• Mussar movement - Early works of Mussar
• Mussar movement - Origin of the movement
• Mussar movement - Ethical sources for the Mussar movement
• Mussar movement - Classical Jewish ethical literature
• Mussar movement - Bibliography
• Mussar movement - Addenda
• Mussar movement - External links

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An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time (usually a few months, years or decades). Art movements were especially important in modern art, where each consecutive movement was considered as a new avant-garde. Movements have almost entirely disappeared in contemporary art, where individualism and diversity prevail. Art movements seem to be a nearly exclusively Western art phenomenon. The term refers to tendencies in vi ...

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Rasta, or the Rastafari movement, is a religious movement that accepts Haile Selassie I, the former emperor of Ethiopia, as King of Kings, Lord of Lords and the Lion of Judah as Jah (the Rastafari name for God, from a shortened form of Jehovah found in Psalm 68:4 in the King James Version of the Bible), and part of the Holy Trinity. The name Rastafari comes from Ras Täfäri, the pre-coronation name of Haile Selassie I. The movement emerged in Jamaica among working-class and peasant black people in the earl ...

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• Rastafari movement - Doctrines
• Rastafari movement - Afrocentrism
• Rastafari movement - Haile Selassie and the Bible
• Rastafari movement - Repatriation and Race
• Rastafari movement - Church and The Holy Trinity
• Rastafari movement - Physical Immortality
• Rastafari movement - Homosexuality
• Rastafari movement - Reggae Music Expressing Rasta Doctrine
• Rastafari movement - Politics
• Rastafari movement - Language
• Rastafari movement - -isms
• Rastafari movement - Ceremonies
• Rastafari movement - Symbols
• Rastafari movement - Dreadlocks
• Rastafari movement - Ganja
• Rastafari movement - History of the Rastafari movement
• Rastafari movement - Marcus Garvey
• Rastafari movement - Early written foundations
• Rastafari movement - Early years
• Rastafari movement - Visit of Selassie I to Jamaica
• Rastafari movement - Walter Rodney
• Rastafari movement - Music
• Rastafari movement - Popularization and recording
• Rastafari movement - Reggae
• Rastafari movement - Rastafari Today

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The Conservation movement seeks to protect plant and animal species as well as the habitats they live in from harmful human influences. The contemporary environmental movement and the Conservation movement have grown together in modern times, as the Sierra Club and Audubon Society have come to reflect the broader ethics of a more diverse society. It continues to admire and use nature, and assign it varying ethical significance. Today it is more correct to say that there is no clear distinction between the conservation ...

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Wh-movement or wh-fronting is a syntactic phenomenon whereby interrogative words (sometimes called wh-words) appear at the beginning of an interrogative sentence. The term wh-movement is due to the fact that most English interrogative words start with wh-, for example, what, where, why, etc. The term wh-movement is applied universally, even when the interrogative words of a given langu ...

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• Wh-movement - Pied-piping
• Wh-movement - Extraction islands
• Wh-movement - Adjunct islands
• Wh-movement - Wh-islands
• Wh-movement - Subject extraction
• Wh-movement - Subject clauses
• Wh-movement - Links

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The Unification Movement is a religious movement spearheaded by the Unification Church (renamed the "Family Federation for World Peace") comprising organizations and individuals that are dedicated to creating world peace through ideal families centered on God in accordance with the doctrines of Reverend Sun Myung Moon. For legal and tax purposes in several countries, various projects inspired or directed by Rev. Moon or members of his church are required to maintain existence as separate entities. Under United States federal ta ...

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Lebanon This article is part of the series: Politics of Lebanon Constitution President: Emile Lahoud Prime Minister: Fouad Siniora Parliament Speaker of the Parliament Political parties Elections edit Amal movement (Arabic: حركة أمل; transliterated:Harakat Amal) is short for the Lebanese Resistance Detachments. Amal is the popular name, meaning "hope" in ...

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• Amal Movement - Origin
• Amal Movement - Amal during the Lebanese war
• Amal Movement - The war of the camps
• Amal Movement - Amal after the war

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The Mau movement was the name given to the popular nonviolent movement for Samoan independence from colonial rule. Mau means "opinion" or "testimony" in Samoan. The Mau had its origins, in 1908, in a dispute between the German colonial administration and the Maloa o Samoa, or Samoan Council of Chiefs, over the establishment of a copra business owned and controlled by native Samoans. The dispute led to the formation of a resistance movement on the island of Savai'i by Mamoe, one of the chiefs deposed by the ...

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• Mau movement - O.F. Nelson
• Mau movement - Civil disobedience
• Mau movement - Black Saturday
• Mau movement - Moving towards independence
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A cultural movement is a change in the way a number of different disciplines approach their work. This embodies all art forms, the sciences, and philosophies. Long ago, different nations or regions of the world would go through their own independent sequence of movements in culture, but as world communications have accelerated this geographical distinction has become less noteworthy. When cultural movements go through revolutions from one to the next, genres tend to get attacked and mixed up, and often new genres are generated and old ...

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History of Christianity Jesus of Nazareth The Apostles Ecumenical councils Great Schism The Crusades Reformation The Trinity God the Father Christ the Son The Holy Spirit The Bible Old Testament New Testament Apocrypha The Gospels Ten Commandments Sermon on the Mount Christian theology Salvation · Grace Christian worship Christian Church Catholicism Orthodox Christianity Protestantism Christian denominations Ch ...

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The Feminist movement (also known as the Women's Movement and Women's Liberation) campaigns on issues such as reproductive rights, domestic violence, maternity leave, equal pay, sexual harassment, discrimination and sexual violence. The goals of the movement vary from country to country, e.g. female circumcision in Sudan, or the glass ceiling in European countries. Some issues, such as rape, incest, and mothering are universal. The Feminist movement is the social reform and activism component of Feminism. Including:

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• Feminist movement - Early Achievements
• Feminist movement - Effect on heterosexual relationships
• Feminist movement - Effect on religion
• Feminist movement - Effect on moral education
• Feminist movement - History
• Feminist movement - Prior to 1850
• Feminist movement - In the 19th century
• Feminist movement - In the 20th century
• Feminist movement - Recent activities
• Feminist movement - Notable historical feminists
• Feminist movement - Relationship to other movements
• Feminist movement - General
• Feminist movement - History
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History of Christianity Jesus of Nazareth The Apostles Ecumenical councils Great Schism The Crusades Reformation The Trinity God the Father Christ the Son The Holy Spirit The Bible Old Testament New Testament Apocrypha The Gospels Ten Commandments Sermon on the Mount Christian theology Salvation · Grace Christian worship Christian Church Catholicism Orthodox Christianity Protestantism Christian denomination ...

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• Charismatic Movement - History
• Charismatic Movement - Beginnings 1950-1975
• Charismatic Movement - Change 1975-2000
• Charismatic Movement - Charismatics - a world perspective
• Charismatic Movement - Charismatic Denominations
• Charismatic Movement - Roman Catholicism
• Charismatic Movement - Criticism of the Movement
• Charismatic Movement - Theologians and Scholars

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