History A-Level
Popular religion and conformity
What Popular religion and conformity means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Popular religion and conformity
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Parish religion blended doctrine with calendar, guild and pilgrimage, and popular attitudes ranged from devout attachment to outward conformity.
Topics that use Popular religion and conformity
- Religious changes, 1509–88 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Court faction and royal patronage
- Institutional versus doctrinal change
- Official reform under Edward VI
- Popular response to religious change
- Protestant and Catholic reform
- Puritan pressure and Elizabethan settlement
- Recusancy, mission and noble protection
- Regional variation and local patronage
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