Religion:
Religion was central to life in Renaissance England.
everyone was Christian
religion was not simply an ideology it was a way of life
the Renaissance strength by Catholic Church (led by the Pope). In 1500 all the major Western European states and their people belonged to it.
Recast religion and the development of policies and behavior Martin Luther In 1517, he's (an ex-monk).
Henry VIII=هنري الثامن wanted to marry and, of course, was not in the Christian monk allowed to marry so that the Pope did not approve his.
He established a Protestant church in England and became the Chairman and the reason is to challenge the authority of the Pope and the Catholic Church
He Wanted a way out of the Christian law, to marry has been married 6 times already, He became a defender of the faith and follow where his own views
In 1527 he was thinking of divorcing his first wife to marry Anne Boleyn.
In Europe there was not only Protestant, but there was also Islam and Judaism.
Both religions were not a question in that period and they are traditionally stigmatized if they were in the literature of that period.
Judaism associated with greed and usury, and Islamic barbarism it, is trustworthy
Image of the two religions in the Renaissance was wrong and based in the elaboration of this is indirect to the traders and diplomats Muslim.
Western hostility to Islam existed since the Crusades, but strengthened in the 16th century when the increased power of the Ottoman Empire (Turks) and expanded westward and formed a threat to the West
Expulsion of Jews from England in 1290 but returned later in small groups at the end of the 16 th century and formed small communities of Jews in London and Bristol.