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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Dissenter > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Dissenter.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissenter > Source revision: 1334308344 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|One who disagrees in matters of opinion, belief, practices etc}} {{For|the browser extension and website|Gab (social network)#Dissenter}} A '''dissenter''' (from the Latin {{Lang|la|dissentire}}, 'to disagree') is one who [dissent](/source/dissent)s (disagrees) in matters of opinion, belief, etc.{{EB1911 |wstitle=Dissenter |volume=8 |page=318|access-date=|inline=1}} Dissent may include political opposition to decrees, ideas or doctrines and it may include opposition to those things or the fiat of a government, political party or religion. ==Usage in Christianity== ===Dissent from the Anglican Church=== {{main|English Dissenters}} [[File:Catalogue of Sects.GIF|thumb|upright=1.15|right|''A Catalogue of the Severall Sects and Opinions in England and other Nations: With a briefe Rehearsall of their false and dangerous Tenents'', a propaganda [broadsheet](/source/broadsheet) denouncing English dissenters from 1647.]] In the social and religious history of [England](/source/England) and [Wales](/source/Wales), and, by extension, [Ireland](/source/Ireland), however, it refers particularly to a member of a religious body who has, for one reason or another, separated from the [established church](/source/established_church) or any other kind of [Protestant](/source/Protestant) who refuses to recognise the supremacy of the established church in areas where the established church is or was [Anglican](/source/Anglican).{{citation | title = The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | editor1-first = F. L. | editor1-last = Cross | editor2-first = E. A. | editor2-last = Livingstone | publisher = Oxford University Press | place = USA | edition = 3rd | page = 490 | date = March 13, 1997}}.{{cite book |last1= Parker |first1= Irene |title= Dissenting academies in England: their rise and progress, and their place among the educational systems of the country |url= https://archive.org/details/dissentingacadem00parkiala/ |year=2009|publisher= Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-74864-3}} Originally, the term included English and Welsh [Roman Catholics](/source/Roman_Catholics) whom the original draft of the [Nonconformist Relief Act 1779](/source/Nonconformist_Relief_Act_1779) styled "[Protesting Catholic Dissenters](/source/Protesting_Catholic_Dissenters)". In practice, however, it designates Protestant Dissenters referred to in sec. ii. of the [Act of Toleration of 1689](/source/Act_of_Toleration_1689) (see [English Dissenters](/source/English_Dissenters)). The term [recusant](/source/recusant), in contrast, came to refer to Roman Catholics rather than Protestant dissenters. ===Dissent from the Presbyterian Church=== The term has also been applied to those bodies who dissent from the Presbyterian [Church of Scotland](/source/Church_of_Scotland), which is the national church of Scotland.{{cite web|url=http://www.covenanter.org/RefPres/shortaccount.htm |title=A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE OLD PRESBYTERIAN DISSENTERS |access-date=2015-09-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150813021129/http://covenanter.org/RefPres/shortaccount.htm |archive-date=2015-08-13 }} In this connotation, the terms ''dissenter'' and ''dissenting'', which had acquired a somewhat contemptuous flavor, have tended since the middle of the 18th century to be replaced by [''nonconformist''](/source/Nonconformist_(Protestantism)), a term which did not originally imply secession, but only refusal to conform in certain particulars (for example the wearing of the [surplice](/source/surplice)), with the authorized usages of the established church. ==Dissent from state religion== Still more recently, the term ''nonconformist'' has in its turn, as the political attack on the principle of a state establishment of religion developed, tended to give way to the style of [''free churches''](/source/free_church) and ''free churchman''. All three terms continue in use, ''nonconformist'' being the most usual, as it is the most colourless. ==See also== * [Christian anarchism](/source/Christian_anarchism) * [Conventicle](/source/Conventicle) * [Dissident](/source/Dissident) * [Freedom of religion](/source/Freedom_of_religion) * [Liberal Christianity](/source/Liberal_Christianity) * [Organizational dissent](/source/Organizational_dissent) * [Protestant dissenting deputies](/source/Protestant_dissenting_deputies) * [Religion in the United Kingdom](/source/Religion_in_the_United_Kingdom) '''Compare:''' * [Spiritual Christianity](/source/Spiritual_Christianity) (dissenters from the [Russian Orthodox Church](/source/Russian_Orthodox_Church)) ==References== {{Reflist}} == External links == * {{Wiktionary inline|dissent}} * {{Wiktionary inline|dissenter}} {{Authority control}} * Category:Nonconformism Category:Dissent Category:Dissidents --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Dissenter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissenter) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissenter?action=history)). 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