Ferdinand's insistence on restoring German church lands secularized by Protestants, culminating in the Edict of Restitution of 1629, so alienated John George that in 1631 he summoned a meeting of all German Protestants to organize opposition (the Leipzig Union).
More than two-thirds of the people of Indiana who are part of an organized religion are Protestant.
When Bernie naively accepts an invitation to speak at a meeting organized by local Protestant women, it is disrupted by an angry mob of her neighbors, who storm the meeting hall, screaming curses.
Correction: May 29 , 2004 Saturday An article last Saturday about the Institute on Religion and Democracy, which has backed traditionalist causes in Protestant denominations, misidentified the group it helped organize after the Episcopal Church ordained an openly gay bishop last year.
During the Hitler years in Germany, Bultmann refused to modify his teaching in any way to suit Nazi ideology, and he supported the Confessing Church, the German Protestant movement organized to resist Nazi church policy.
As these Sinhala, Buddhist subjects began to organize against the British colonial regime in the early 20th century, "the Young Men's Buddhist Association and other very Protestant organizations were at the center of Sinhala nationalism," says De Silva Wijeyerante.
But just as a Protestant chaplain would not preside over a Catholic service, a humanist might not lead a religious ceremony, though he might help organize it.
These trends have echoed in politics, gaining in intensity two decades ago when conservative Protestants began organizing as a public force for change.
During scandals involving prominent televangelists in the late '80s, Protestant confidence in organized religion slid from a high of 73percentt in 1985 to 51percentt in 1989.
Exploiting the hurt religious feelings of the Roman Catholic population under Protestant occupation and organizing Polish Lithuanian military leaders in the Tyszowce Confederation, John II Casimir Vasa managed to regain ground in 1656.
