Reference no: EM134001652
Questions
1. Early colonists offered all people the opportunity to practice the religion of their choice and did not discriminate.
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2. The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution states that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." This is often referred to as non-establishment and free exercise.
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3. There were many groups who were discriminated against during the 19th and 20th centuries by the Protestant majority, including Catholics, Jews and Mormons.
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4. The Social Gospel within Protestant Christianity sought to make Christians more social by encouraging parties and events.
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5. There has been a surge in public religious expression within the United States after World War II.
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6. Although black slaves and white slave owners initially worshipped together in Christian churches, eventually they became separated, which led to the formation of the Black Church.
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7. The Black Church, which is actually a loose knit group of various Christian churches whose members are predominantly African American, historically served as a social, political, and economic resource for African Americans.
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8. According to the text, most black preachers did not aggressively stand up to the white dominated society because they did not want to jeopardize their position of power.
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9. African Americans have no other religious affiliation besides Christianity.
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10. Native American religion, culture and languages have been severely altered because of the "Americanization" that Protestant Christians attempted to force on Native Americans.
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11. Native Americans responded to deprivation in different ways, including the use of peyote for religious purposes and revolution.
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12. American sociologist Andrew Greeley defines the United States as a denominational society, which means a society characterized by neither an established church nor a protesting sect, but one in which religion and the rest of the society interrelate through a considerable number of essentially equal religious organizations.
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13. The rise of ecumenism is marked by greater cooperation and peaceful coexistence between churches and might lead to the merger of two or more denominations.
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14. Mainline Protestant churches have been on the rise since the 1960's.
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15. Although the definition of secularization is debated by scholars, in general, most people understand it as a way of explaining human behavior and other phenomenon in by turning to science and rationalism instead of religion.
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