How would a chart of mid-17th century religious beliefs differ from this chart? (5 points) A) Fewer people would believe in a single God because most people believed in multiple gods. B) Fewer people would identify as atheist, because people were not willing to share alternative religious beliefs publically. C) More people would list their religion as unknown because there were no strong religious entities during this era. D) More people would believe in a spirit or life force because such beliefs were encouraged during this era.

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The following chart shows religious beliefs in modern Europe. Use the chart to answer the following question:

A circle graph displaying the percentage of those who had a belief in God in modern Europe. 52 percent believe in God, 27 percent believe in a spirit of life force, 18 percent believe in atheism, and three percent were unknown.

How would a chart of mid-17th century religious beliefs differ from this chart?

A- Fewer people would believe in a single God because most people believed in multiple gods.

B- Fewer people would identify as an atheist because people were not willing to share alternative religious beliefs publically.

C- More people would list their religion as unknown because there were no strong religious entities during this era.

D-More people would believe in a spirit or life force because such beliefs were encouraged during this era

In the 17th century, there was no total religious freedom or free-thinking and tolerance in Europe, in the broadest sense,  the church directs the affairs of its Nation and its citizen in a way by exerting its power/domain to influence people's lives(societies, politically, and economic). The Church belief is based on the existence of a Supreme being  Called God, therefore, any different beliefs that contrary to this are not acceptable, which leads to persecution. This makes people of that time behave according to precepts of been religious and supporting the church because being an atheist which denies the existence of God is not acceptable.

A chart of mid-17th century religious beliefs differ from this chart  because fewer people would identify as an atheist because people were not willing to share alternative religious beliefs publically

B- Fewer people would identify as atheist because people were not willing to share alternative religious beliefs publically.

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paul willis’s work has focused mainly, but not exclusively, on the ethnographic study of lived cultural forms in a wide variety of contexts. from highly structured to weakly structured ones, willis examines how practices of `informal cultural production` to produce and construct cultural worlds `from below`.[2]

trained in literary criticism at cambridge,[2] paul willis received his phd in 1972 from the centre for contemporary cultural studies at birmingham university where he remained as senior research fellow until 1981. he gave a paper at the 9th symposium of the natiohnal deviancy conference in january 1972 entitled 'a motor-bike subculture

during the 1980`s willis served as youth policy adviser to wolverhampton borough council in the english midlands. there he produced the youth review (published by the council and ashgate) which formed the basis for youth policy and for the formation of the democratically elected youth council, both still functioning. during the 1990s he served first as head of the division of media, communications and cultural studies, and then as a member of the professoriate at the university of wolverhampton. in 2000 willis co-founded the sage journal, ethnography. in 2003 willis was hired as a head professor of social and cultural ethnography at keele university.