Exploration also had an influence, as travellers returned with tales of very different sexual cultures.But the key driver, Mr Dabhoiwala believes, was the spread of religious tolerance and nonconformity, which eroded the church's authority and let people define morality more personally.
With its semi-rural economy and pockets of religious nonconformity, this corner of England was a foothold for pluralist Liberal politics throughout the long years of Conservative-Labour duopoly in the mid-20th century.
Conformity in ecclesiastical matters was imposed in areas where nonconformity had survived under Elizabeth.
In other words, at a certain point conformity to critical theory became more important than creative nonconformity, suggesting the truth of the art historian Max J. Friedländer's categorical statement that "the rule of theory always rises in proportion as creative power falls".
In England, individualism encompassed religious nonconformity (i.e., nonconformity with the Church of England) and economic liberalism in its various versions, including both laissez-faire and moderate state-interventionist approaches.
The causes of the Liberal Party, the Welsh nation, and Nonconformity were inseparable in the atmosphere in which Lloyd George was raised, and he first made his name by a successful battle in the courts to establish the right of Nonconformists to burial in the churchyard of their parish.
The primary issue surrounding warranties is to what degree manufacturers, sellers, and lessors should be responsible for the risk of defects and nonconformity in goods that they distribute.
Nonconformity to official doctrine was often enhanced by unexpected or deviant behaviour.
Perhaps the most famous instance of Western nonconformity to the ceremony occurred during the mission of the British envoy Lord Macartney to the court of the Chinese emperor in 1793.
Nonconformity of opinion is treated as the equivalent of resistance or opposition to the government, and a formidable apparatus of compulsion, including various kinds of state police or secret police, is kept in being to enforce the orthodoxy of the proclaimed doctrines of the state.
With the spread of Nonconformity on the island, Manx translations of some of the popular hymns of the Methodist Revival were published.
