QUOTES WITH «THE BIBLE BELT»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
the Bible Belt.
I was raised with the Bible Belt mentality, and by coming to California, I came out of this dark place and unlearned a lot of things I'd been taught.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THE BIBLE BELT»
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the Bible Belt in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
the Bible Belt and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Pray
the Gay Away:
The Extraordinary Lives of
Bible Belt Gays
Drawing on the remarkable stories of Bible Belt gays, Barton brings to the fore their thoughts, experiences and hard-won insights to explore the front lines of our national culture war over marriage, family, hate crimes, and equal rights.
Bernadette C. Barton, 2012
2
Being Presbyterian in
the Bible Belt: A Theological Survival ...
Addressing such questions as "Are You Saved, or Are You Presbyterian?" and "Is the Bible the Literal Word of God or Just a Long, Boring Book?" this is an easy-to-understand, slightly irreverent appraoch to theology and the kind of ...
Ted V. Foote, P. Alex Thornburg, 2000
3
Being United Methodist in
the Bible Belt: A Theological ...
Written in a humorous, accessible style, this book is an easy-to-understand guide to the kinds of theological questions that many United Methodist youth and others are asking today.Being United Methodist in the Bible Beltwill help any ...
4
The Great Revival: Beginnings of
the Bible Belt
" Drawing upon the religious writings of southern evangelicals, John Boles asserts that the extraordinary crowds and miraculous transformations that distinguished the South's First Great Awakening were not simply instances of emotional ...
5
Southern Cross:
The Beginnings of
the Bible Belt
In an astonishing history, a work of strikingly original research and interpretation, Heyrman shows how the evangelical Protestants of the late-18th century affronted the Southern Baptist majority of the day, not only by their opposition to ...
Christine Leigh Heyrman, 2013
6
A Biblical People in
the Bible Belt:
The Jewish Community of ...
The Jewish Community of Memphis, Tennessee, 1840s-1960s Selma S. Lewis.
bastion. Jews seem willing to acknowledge that while they share common human
characteristics with non-Jews, Judaism is in many respects different from other ...
7
In God's Country: Travels in
the Bible Belt, USA
Douglas Kennedy spent a long hot summer cruising through that expanse of the American South known as 'The Bible Belt' exploring that question.
8
Encyclopedia of Religion in American Politics
The origins of the Bible Belt can be traced to the evangelical nature of the early
settlers of the backcountry of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Mostly
Methodists, Presbyterians, and Baptists, and combining antebellum evangelism ...
Jeffrey D. Schultz, John G. West, Iain S. MacLean, 1999
9
The Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, ...
Emphasizing the pejorative meaning he intended, Mencken linked the Bible Belt
with other belts, hookworm and lynch, extensions that produced a strongly
southern association for Bible Belt in the national mind. Midwesterners did not
typically ...
Joseph M. Flora, Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan, Todd W. Taylor, 2002
10
The Biblical Truth about America's Death Penalty
Almost 90 percent of executions in America during the last five years have taken
place in the Bible Belt (see table 1.2). Table 1.2 American Executions in the Bible
Belt (1999-2003) 'Bible Belt executions (1999): Tex. 35, Okla. 6, Va. 14, Fla.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THE BIBLE BELT»
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the Bible Belt is used in the context of the following news items.
I'm raising my children atheist in the Bible Belt
It's also the Bible Belt, and even though we live in a relatively progressive community here, the entire atmosphere is much, much more religious—especially ... «Salon, Jun 15»
The Bible Belt's Long Running Hypocrisy
What is clear to me is the excessive amount of bigotry, racism, homophobia and xenophobia that have littered the headlines from states such as Mississippi, ... «Huffington Post, Mar 15»
The “Bible Belt” is the Porn Belt: Surprised?
The Bible Belt is the Porn Belt. According to a new study, the more you say you literally believe in the Bible, the more you watch porn. At least that's the inevitable ... «Patheos, Oct 14»
The Real 'L' Word (Especially in the Bible Belt) Is...
For a religious person the ultimate rejection is rejection by God, and in the Deep South, where many believe homosexuality is a sin -- no different from bestiality ... «Huffington Post, Aug 14»
Eureka Springs, Ark., hosts first 'mass gay wedding reception in …
EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. — The city of Eureka Springs hosted the first “mass gay wedding reception in the Bible Belt” on Saturday, welcoming hundreds of ... «LGBTQ Nation, Aug 14»
New laws restricting access to abortion in the Bible Belt
The laws, requiring abortion doctors to have privileges to admit patients to local hospitals, could have a profound impact on women in poor and rural areas. «Press Herald, May 14»
Atheists in the Bible Belt: A survival guide
The convention was called “Freedom From Religion in the Bible Belt,” and it was part celebration of skepticism and part strategy session about surviving in the ... «CNN, May 14»
ACLU sues Bible Belt school for allegedly bullying Buddhist student
For one sixth-grader, it's no fun being Buddhist in the Bible Belt. A Louisiana couple is claiming faculty and students at Negreet High School bullied their ... «New York Daily News, Jan 14»
Unbuckling the Bible Belt: “Nashville” and the Nones
The Bible Belt was, at long last, losing its religion. The day after Pew announced its findings, ABC premiered “Nashville”—returning for a third season next ... «Religion Dispatches, Jan 14»
Bible Belt Has Most Sinners, Research Suggests: How Sinful is Your …
"Those swaths of red through the South - people automatically interpret that as the Bible Belt being more sinful, but the proxies we used are well known to be ... «Christian Post, Dec 13»
