Unitarian or Unitarianism may refer to:
Christian and Christian-derived theologies
A Unitarian is a follower of, or a member of an organisation that follows, any of several theologies referred to as Unitarianism:
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Unitarianism (1565–present), a liberal Christian theological movement known for its belief in the unitary nature of God, and for its rejection of the doctrines of the Trinity, original sin, predestination, and of biblical inerrancy
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Unitarian Universalism (often referring to themselves as "UUs" or "Unitarians"), a primarily North American liberal pluralistic religious movement that grew out of Unitarianism
* In everyday British usage, "Unitarian" refers to the organisation formally known as the
General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches, which holds beliefs similar to Unitarian Universalists
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International Council of Unitarians and Universalists
The International Council of Unitarians and Universalists (ICUU) was an umbrella organization founded in 1995 comprising many Unitarian, Universalist, and Unitarian Universalist organizations. It was disolved in 2021 along with the Unitarian ...
, an umbrella organization
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American Unitarian Association, a religious denomination in the United States and Canada, formed in 1825 and consolidated in 1961 with the
Universalist Church of America to form the
Unitarian Universalist Association
Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) is a liberal religious association of Unitarian Universalist congregations. It was formed in 1961 by the consolidation of the American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church of America, both P ...
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Canadian Unitarian Council, an institution that joined the Unitarian Universalist Association in 1961 and left by agreement in 2002 to provide almost all equivalent services for Unitarian Universalists in Canada
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Biblical Unitarianism, a scripture-fundamentalist non-Trinitarian movement (flourished c.1876-1929)
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Nontrinitarianism, a generic name for a Christian point of view that rejects the Trinity doctrine
Other religious theologies
* The English translation of the Arabic term ''Muwaḥḥid'' (plural ''Muwaḥḥidūn''), alternately meaning "monotheist", which may refer to:
** The
Almohad Caliphate
The Almohad Caliphate (; ar, خِلَافَةُ ٱلْمُوَحِّدِينَ or or from ar, ٱلْمُوَحِّدُونَ, translit=al-Muwaḥḥidūn, lit=those who profess the Tawhid, unity of God) was a North African Berbers, Berber M ...
, a dynasty and movement in the Maghreb and Al-Andalus
** The endonym of the
Druze
The Druze (; ar, دَرْزِيٌّ, ' or ', , ') are an Arabic-speaking esoteric ethnoreligious group from Western Asia who adhere to the Druze faith, an Abrahamic, monotheistic, syncretic, and ethnic religion based on the teachings of ...
people, a monotheistic ethnoreligious community, found primarily in Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Jordan
** The self-description of many
Salafi
The Salafi movement or Salafism () is a reform branch movement within Sunni Islam that originated during the nineteenth century. The name refers to advocacy of a return to the traditions of the "pious predecessors" (), the first three generat ...
and
Wahhabi groups
** An endonym of the Unitarian Bahá’ís, a
Bahá’í division centred on a revival of the claims of
Mirza Muhammad Ali
Politics
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Unitary state, a political system where a country is governed as one single unit
* A member of the
Unitarian Party of Argentine history
* A period of the
Argentine Civil War, the Unitarian-Federalist War: 1828–31
Other uses
* A scholar who holds that the works of Homer were composed by a single individual (see
Homeric scholarship)
See also
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Unification Church
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Unity Church
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United Reform Church
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