Midwest And Southern Religious Groups: Similarities And Differences

This paper explores the different views of religion between three sociologist writers, Karl Marx, Max Weber, and Emile Durkheim. It discusses a few different religions and the percent of Indiana that is religious. It will go into examples about how religion has developed over time and how Christians all have one big thing in common. Throughout the paper, it will explain how Christians are trying to share the word of God and make their community a better place.

Along with a territory, comes its traditions and ways of living. One key aspect of the Appalachian life is religion. Religion plays a major role in Appalachia as well as the creation of Berea college. Focusing on the Christian traditions found in central and southern Appalachia, numerous scholars examine the theology and religious doctrines of the various mountain, Evangelical, Pentecostal and mainline denominational churches throughout the region. In the last several decades, the research of Appalachian scholars such as Ronald L. Lewis, Dwight B. Billings, Wilma Dunaway, and others contributed to the deconstruction of numerous economic and social myths. Until the 1970s, most of the literary and academic works on Appalachia failed to recognize

The Northwests’ religious practices were not normal practices. Nature was very important to the people of the Northwest because they believed that there was supernatural beings around them. They would worship spirits. The only way the northwest could communicate with the spirits was through shamans or the medicine man. It will be put on the middle of the exhibit. The Northwest would pass stories down through singing, dancing, or orally. The Northwestern people had weird religious beliefs. They thought that there was spirits surrounding them at all times.They would use shamans or the medicine man to communicate to the spirits.

Looking into the two, Louisiana appears to impose more in the relationship between the slaves and their masters, as well as the religious beliefs of the slaves. In articles II, it obviously expresses that it is basic on the masters to give religious direction to their slaves. Louisiana was more about the religion issues, and another Article, IV in which it states, Negroes placed under the direction or supervision of any other person than a Catholic, are liable to confiscation. Under the Article V it states, Sundays and feast days are to be strictly

Before mid-seventeen century, people in Americans lived as colonist with established churches. After the King was defeated, members of the Church of England refused to stay loyal to the fallen King. They opted to grow a new church branch in America, the Protestant Church. Religious diversity grew further under the Declaration of Rights that became the open door to guaranteeing religious toleration. Conversely, even after winning and moving toward separation of church and state, many remained using the traditional emotion of the European system that imparts the significance of morality and respect for authority. By the 1800’s many people were ready for a spiritual growth and individual religious diversity. As specified in Liberty University’s

Secularism is the indifference to or rejection of formal religion. The most secular countries today are in Europe. Secularism has become more widespread during the past century due to the rise in democracy. Democratic governments disadvantage the traditional practices of a religion because they offer freedom, whereas other forms of government may force it's population to practice a specific religion. For example, the predominance of Islam in the Middle East can be associated with the influence of Taliban, a militant movement in the area that enforces the Islamic religion.

Eighteenth century New England was a place of spiritual revival affecting more than just unevangelized colonists but people of all races and religions, including Native Americans. Between the years 1700 and 1820, there was a series of movements, known collectively as the Great Awakening, which consisted of localized religious resurgences that involved several denominations of Christianity. The objective of the Great Awakening was to spread the word of Christ to those who had not yet had a spiritual experience with Him. Native Americans were greatly exposed to the Great Awakening through a number of methods used by the colonists including sermons and the institution of Christian boarding schools for Native children. Each individual Indian responded to the revival in their own unique way, some denouncing Christianity, some embracing it, and some feeling indifferent towards it; however, throughout the course of the book, The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in North America, author Linford Fisher reestablishes the idea that there was Indian conversion to Christianity, and explains that Native Americans at this time were more likely to affiliate themselves with the church rather than to fully convert.

During the 1800’s there were times when people came together in both religious (spiritual) and logical approach to what was going on around them. There were groups that believed in different forms of religious beliefs that varied in its values and leadership skills, as well as different groups that revolved around making the world a better place through a set way of life. Even though a religious group and a non-religious group have many things that set them apart from each other, the spiritual aspect of course, they also have many similarities. These vary from their cult like followings, ideas of perfect worlds that can be created, roles men and women played, as well as how they all stemmed off of the ideals of other people.

Like African Americans women of all races have faced discrimination in The United States. Women also had limited rights and wanted to be considered equal. Like blacks women could not vote, own land, or get a higher education until the early 1960’s. These two movements created the Civil Rights Equal Rights amendments. These two groups forced the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to be created.

Religion’s influence in the South is appropriate, in multiple aspects. Religion is tied to politics in different levels of government and in everyday life. In the State of North Carolina, our state constitution directly mentions God/religion in the preamble, which is as follows, “We, the people of the State of North Carolina, grateful to Almighty God, the Sovereign Ruler of Nations, for the preservation of the American Union and the existence of our civil, political and religious liberties, and acknowledging our dependence upon Him for the continuance of those blessings to us and our posterity…” With this North Carolina is stating that the use of religion is appropriate for governmental attributes and therefore is appropriate therein.

.In the new world there are two dominant religions that we see in the readings which were the puritans and the Catholics. Even though both of this religions had may differences they also had some similarities. A similarity that seems commend in both religions is that they both believe that all actions and results were the way they happened because of god. Puritans believe that the rich people were rich and the poor people were poor because god wanted them to be that way (23). The Jesuits believe that they were send to the new world because and that god wanted them to teach and improve the believes of the natives because god wanted them to do so (37). They both believe that there is one god and Jesus Christ was the son of god (24, 31). They strongly believe in the bounds of love and need to help and give to your neighbor (24).

Bellah, as a result, believed that America’s key resources for finding a common identity and unifying people is enable by the national spokesperson for the civil religion, the President. This civil religion finds expression in the President’s various addresses to the nation. In essence, Bellah claims the legendary wall between church and state has not precluded the incorporation of religious imagery into the political address. In fact, the American populace as a whole wants and, in some cases rather, expects religious languages and discourses in Presidential rhetoric which are extremely important to

I found that the religious views throughout the early thirteen colonies were most appealing to me. During the 1770s, many Americans living in these colonies were either Protestant or of no religion at all. As years passed and more people started to move into the colonies, some of the colonies saw more religious views starting to grow. Two of the main religions introduced to the colonies were Judaism and Roman Catholic. Jewish synagogues were built and Roman Catholics started to form churches with priests, which helped people to learn more about these new and growing religions. John Calvin introduced Christianity in these churches, leading almost 80% of Americans to Christianity. There were many religions introduced all through the colonies,

As Norman Mailer once put it, "In America, the country was the religion. And all the religions of the land were fed from that first religion. . . ."

There are may religions in the world, but through out the different religions there are many crossovers and similarities. Mattie Stepanek said “It doesn't matter how you pray. Just pray. All religions are beautiful and they all have one common belief. There's something bigger and greater than us that can give us and take from us life. It is better than the here and now”. Religion itself means “a belief in and worship of a greater power” (dictionary.com). By people believing in any kind of religion, it means that similarities can start there. With so many religions having similarities, it might be hard to distinguish from certain religions from another. Religions like of African and Native Americans might not at first seem alike, but as you look deeper into their religions and see they have similarities. These similarities are attributed as beliefs, rituals, and history. Their growths and struggles might not have happened at the same time, but both religions are still celebrated today.