Joseph Mattera discusses some of the contrasts between American Christianity and biblical Christianity. 1 Roughly eight-in-ten (79%) African Americans self-identify as Christian, as do seven-in-ten whites and 77% of Latinos, according to Pew Research Center’s 2014 Religious Landscape Study.
That these Supreme Court rulings incrementally and collectively weakened the authority and influence of Christianity in American society and culture… Those similarities were downplayed in the effort to cast natives as inferior or sub-human. The religious landscape of the United States continues to change at a rapid clip. Christianity, in particular, is often embraced only in weak forms or as a mere tool for social and cultural transformation; the more muscular and biblical forms of Christianity are often ignored or rejected. North American evangelicals read the Bible—and the world—through Western eyes. Americans have debated what it means to be Christian in politics throughout their history. by Bruce Ashford | December 9, 2019.
It was non-Christian: We sang in the Yakama language, worshipped with hand drums and danced in a longhouse with a dirt floor. Until American churches understand how to live and work in our specific version of an increasingly post-Christian culture, they will struggle with effectiveness for the gospel. Unfortunately, traditional American Christians have been on the losing end of the culture war for a long time. Most American Native groups in both North and South America have the concept of a Great Creator and a number of them have beliefs that are in harmony with basic Christianity. Sources. Most black Christians and about half of all African Americans (53%) are associated with historically black Protestant churches, according to the study. Native Americans and Christianity. Religious Diversity.
Christian culture is the cultural practices common to Christianity.With the rapid expansion of Christianity to Europe, Syria, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, Egypt, Ethiopia, and India and by the end of the 4th century it had also become the official state church of the Roman Empire. It is true that Christianity does not dominate American culture the way it did in the 1830s, when Tocqueville wrote “Democracy in America.” We live today in a very different America. Christianity and the World of Cultures Used with permission from Laura James: LauraJamesArt.com. Biblical Christianity will offend the masses that embrace cultural Christianity or any of today's blended, Americanized religions. Because of this diversity it is difficult to provide a single accurate description of Native American religion. The study of world Christianity begins with the basic premise that Christianity is, and from its very inception has been, a cross cultural and … For most of US history, to be American was to be “Christian.” National identity was conflated with religious identity in a way that produced a distorted form of Christianity, mostly about family values, Golden Rule moralism, and good citizenship.