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He had his foot on the academic ladder by the time war broke out in 1939—he'd already published his first book, on the Anglican Church and Archbishop of Canterbury William Laud in the English Civil War, making waves with its anti-clericalism.
A Very English Controversialist Norman Stone 2011
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Mr. Sarkozy himself has recognized that the common French understanding of the relation between political freedom and religion can be difficult to distinguish from anti-clericalism.
Can Sarkozy Justify Banning the Veil? Peter Berkowitz 2010
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Bryan Garsten, writing on the religion of "Leviathan," shows the importance of anti-clericalism to Hobbes's project and its influence.
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Mr. Sarkozy himself has recognized that the common French understanding of the relation between political freedom and religion can be difficult to distinguish from anti-clericalism.
Can Sarkozy Justify Banning the Veil? Peter Berkowitz 2010
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Wars, fires, poverty, dissolutions, anti-clericalism, and secularization have all decreased the survival chances for their manuscripts.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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In Spain, the pope told reporters, a strong, aggressive lay mentality, an anti-clericalism, a secularization has been born as we experienced in the 1930s.
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Mr. Sarkozy himself has recognized that the common French understanding of the relation between political freedom and religion can be difficult to distinguish from anti-clericalism.
Can Sarkozy Justify Banning the Veil? Peter Berkowitz 2010
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In Spain, the pope told reporters, a strong, aggressive lay mentality, an anti-clericalism, a secularization has been born as we experienced in the 1930s.
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One modern-minded Catholic writer has been hawking a letter round the Press threatening anti-clericalism; but if that come, and I do not expect it in my time, it will not come in the old form.
Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000
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For modernity, in Lefebvre's mind, necessarily involved aggressive secularism, anti-clericalism, and the persecution of the church by godless men.
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