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Society of Friends  

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  • The Society of Friends (Quakers) is a religious movement that arose out of radical Puritanism in the seventeenth century in northwestern England. In the early twenty-first century the movement included about 135,000 English-speaking members worldwide, with larger numbers in East Africa and Latin America. [Source: Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion; Friends, Society of]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-XH6KPRJS-1

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