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* [[Utopia|Utopian]] [[Commune|communities]] founded in the United States and Europe 16th through 20th centuries, by such groups as the [[Anabaptists|Anabaptists beginning as early as 1521]]. See especially [[Socialism#Religion|Religious socialism]].
 
* [[Utopia|Utopian]] [[Commune|communities]] founded in the United States and Europe 16th through 20th centuries, by such groups as the [[Anabaptists|Anabaptists beginning as early as 1521]]. See especially [[Socialism#Religion|Religious socialism]].
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* Rule by the [[Lutheranism|Lutheran Princes]] in accord with the [[Smalcald Articles]] beginning in 1537, with the systematic eradication of Catholicism as a crime punishable by death throughout their territories.
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* Rule by the [[Lutheranism|Lutheran Princes]] in accordance with [http://stpaulserie.org/The%20Smalcald%20Articles%20and%20the%20Treatise.pdf The Smalcald Articles] beginning in 1537, with the systematic eradication of Catholicism as a crime punishable by death throughout their territories.
    
* [[Geneva|Geneva, Switzerland]] during the [http://vlib.iue.it/carrie/texts/carrie_books/gilbert/14.html Genevan Reform c. 1541-1564 under John Calvin].
 
* [[Geneva|Geneva, Switzerland]] during the [http://vlib.iue.it/carrie/texts/carrie_books/gilbert/14.html Genevan Reform c. 1541-1564 under John Calvin].
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* Only two [[Democracy|democracies]] (or more precisely [[Republic (Politics)|republics]]) reserve places in their legislatures specifically for representatives of the state religion, these are the aforementioned Islamic Republic of Iran and the [[United Kingdom]] where Bishops of the [[Church of England]] sit in the upper chamber, the [[House of Lords]] under the designation of Lords Spiritual, the [[Monarchy|monarch of England]] being also the supreme head of the Church of England since 1559.<ref>[http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Documents/act_of_supremacy2.htm Act of Supremacy]</ref>
 
* Only two [[Democracy|democracies]] (or more precisely [[Republic (Politics)|republics]]) reserve places in their legislatures specifically for representatives of the state religion, these are the aforementioned Islamic Republic of Iran and the [[United Kingdom]] where Bishops of the [[Church of England]] sit in the upper chamber, the [[House of Lords]] under the designation of Lords Spiritual, the [[Monarchy|monarch of England]] being also the supreme head of the Church of England since 1559.<ref>[http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Documents/act_of_supremacy2.htm Act of Supremacy]</ref>
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* [[Atheism]] imposed by the [[Reign of Terror]] in [[France]] in the 18th century, and by the [[Soviet Union]], the [[Peoples Republic of China]] and the Communist governments in [[Southeast Asia]], Africa, [[Cuba]] and [[South America]] in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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* [[Atheism]] imposed by the [[Reign of Terror]] in [[France]] in the 18th century, and by the [[Soviet Union]], the [[Peoples Republic of China]] and the Communist governments in [[Southeast Asia]], Africa, [[Cuba]] and [[South America]] in the 20th and 21st centuries. See [[Atheism is a religion]].
    
* [[Wahabism]] or militant extremist Islam imposed on countries and communities controlled by [[Al Qaeda]], the [[Taliban]], and [[ISIS]] since the beginning of the 21st century, in the Middle East and Africa and island nations in the Pacific.
 
* [[Wahabism]] or militant extremist Islam imposed on countries and communities controlled by [[Al Qaeda]], the [[Taliban]], and [[ISIS]] since the beginning of the 21st century, in the Middle East and Africa and island nations in the Pacific.
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