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Anabaptism
Anabaptism is a radical Protestant movement that arose in Zürich in 1525 and spread through Germany, the Netherlands and Moravia. Anabaptists rejected infant baptism, baptising only adult believers, and generally sought to separate the church from the state; Catholics and Protestants alike persecuted them. After the violent episode of Münster in 1534 to 1535, the movement turned to pacifism, surviving in the Mennonites, Hutterites and Amish.
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