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Religion in America
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 2
04/24/2011

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Chinese Exclusion Act 1882
Definition
  • Inacted by Americans because of great concerns about jobs (California Gold Rush of the 1840s-1850s)
  • Excluded the immigration of both skilled and unskilled laborers for ten years.
  • based on race
  • repealed in 1943
  • SIGNIFICANCE: Followed by the Immigration Act of 1924 which would restrict immigration even further
Term
"Blue-Eyed Devil"
Definition
  • Book by Michael Muhammed Knight (2006)
  • he traveled over 20,000 miles by Greyhound bus in 60 days, searching for a true American Islam
  • attempts to uncover the true identity of W. D. Fard, the mysterious founder of the Nation of Islam
  • SIGNIFICANCE: evidence that the Nation of Islam still exists today
Term
Azusa Street Mission
Definition
  • Established by William J. Seymor (Af. Am. male)
  • sent to L.A. in 1906 by Perham to est. a community to pray for gifts of the Holy Spirit
  • Lucy Farrow came in 1906
  • She was sent to Azusa by Perham after she arrived, people started speaking in tongues
  • SIGNIFICANCE: Start of the pentecostal church and blurring of race/gender lines
Term
Transcendental Meditation
Definition
  • Meditate twoce a day for twenty minutes
  • unify being with other beings
  • popularized by the Beatles
  • a part of zen buddhism
  • SIGNIFICANCE: change in Am. vlaues - traditional churches losing members, turn to Asian religion because it was different.
Term
Walter Rauscenbusch
Definition
  • 1861-1918
  • german immigrant family
  • pastor of German Baptist Church
  • became worried about social conditions
  • talked about the kingdom of God
  • Wrote a lot about the social principles of Jesus, sin being selfishness, deemphasis of sin.
  • spread a kingdom of god through example and a christ like life.
  • SIGNIFICANCE: leader in a reaction to immigration, concerned about the lives of others.
Term
May Laws
Definition
  • May 1882
  • Russian Laws
  • Jews cannot hold public office, cannot participate in economic life
  • quotas on the number of jews who could be teachers and how many could be students
  • could not be part of the legal system
  • could not vote
  • cannot work for the goverment
  • russian gov't encouraging Jews to leave
  • SIGNIFICANCE: when Jews arrived in America they were already used to discrimination
Term
Thomas Dorsey
Definition
  • 1899-1993
  • Father of black gospel music
  • combines christian praise with rhythms of jazz and blues
  • SIGNIFICANCE: proliferation of works that have become the voice of black churches and gospel music. paved the way for other kinds of gospel music in the black community
Term
Dorothy Day
Definition
  • Catholic Workers Movement
  • Born a protestant
  • worked as a journalist
  • involved with socialism
  • lived with a guy and had a child out of wedlock, after birth of her daughter, converted to Catholicism - man left her
  • Catholic Worker Movement: 1933 - began by destributing a newspaper called the catholic worker
  • emphasis on works and religious practice
  • houses of hospitality: aid/comfort for those who need it, major urban centers, provide food/shelter
  • ardent pacifist
  • SIGNIFICANCE: Founder of the Catholic Worker Movement and Hospitality houses of which there are still 100s today.
Term
Neo-Orthodoxy
Definition
  • aka Christian Realists
  • late 1940s to early 1950s
  • realistic approach to human life
  • called the found generation
  • young people upset about what happened during WW1 - nationalism blamed, blamed old generation for making the young people fight, disallusioned by what they saw at war.
  • why do we have the old order? we need something different.
  • demonstrations on college campuses, organized ROTC, Peace
  • hated racism and felt that racism=international problem which fueled nationalism.
  • solution to racism: christians needed to unify - called for an international christian movement.
  • leaders include: Francis Miller, Reinhold Niebuhr, Henry P. Van Dusen
  • believed that God is transcendent and other.
  • nothing can be done to avoid sin
  • against liberal protestants
  • called for involvement in WW2
  • SIGNIFICANCE: Christian realists provide a transition away from Liberal Protestants but form a middle ground between lib prots and fundamentalists. Basis for future views and ideas of the Civil Rights Movement.
Term

SCLC

Definition
  • founded by MLK in 1957
  • wanted braod social justice in America
  • advocated boycotts and other forms of non-violent protest
  • church should be involved in social justice
  • SIGNIFICANCE: proof that religion mattered during the civil rights movement, religion was part of the civil rights movement.
Term
The Fundamentals
Definition
  • 12 books published between 1910 and 1916
  • broad defense of Christianity against a hostile world
  • 1/3 dealt with inerrancy
  • 1/3 argued in defense of protestantism
  • 1/3 dealt with movements like romanism, mormanism, communism, socialism, spiritualism, Eddyism (christian science)
  • SIGNIFICANCE: reaction to immigration of non-protestants, resurgance of conservative theology
Term
James Cone
Definition
  • God was on the side of the oppressed, not the oppressor.
  • Blacks = oppressed, whites = oppressor
  • 1969: combined Liberation Theology (alongside black power mvmt) in his book Black Theology and Black Power - provided a new way to articulate the distinctiveness of theology in the black church
  • stated that if the gospel is a gospel of liberation of the oppressed then jesus is a savior to the oppressed
  • SIGNIFICANCE: changed the view of catholicism, Jesus is on the side of the OPPRESSED, new idea.
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