The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2569 page)

Unitarianism
.

A religious movement connected with Christianity. Unitarians are those who reject the Trinitarian understanding of God. Although there are many antecedents, the specific point of origin for the movement is usually taken to be the work of
Servetus
, and of the Sozzinis (i.e.
Socinianism
). The first Unitarian congregation in England was formed in 1774, and in the USA in 1782, but the movement did not become fully organized until the Baltimore sermon of W. E. Channing in 1819, on ‘Unitarian Christianity’. The American Unitarian Association was founded in 1825. In 1961, the Unitarians merged with the
Universalists
, the joint movement becoming known as the Unitarian Universalist Association. It is characterized by an emphasis on members seeking truth out of human experience, not out of allegiance to creeds or doctrines. There is no hierarchical control, each congregation being self-governing. There are more than a thousand congregations, mainly in the USA and Canada.

 
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Unitarians
.

Arab.
al-Muwa
id
n
can be translated as ‘the Unitarians’, and it occurs particularly, in Islam, in
Ism
‘
l
and
S
f
movements, where the unity of Being is stressed, with human (or sometimes all) appearances being manifestations of that one Being. See also
Almohads
in
Ibn Tumart
; Druzes.

 
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see
MORAVIAN BRETHREN
.

 
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