Perspectives Of Christianity FINAL EXAM

What are four features/Characteristics of black churches (From textbook, Chapter 21)

1. The increased presence and growth of
   megachurches, often defined as congregations with two thousand or more
   members

2. The continued role of many Black clergy, congregants, and related groups in political activism at local, regional, state, and national levels.

3. The emergence of Black theology during the late 1960s.

4. The set of challenges confronting

   contemporary African American Christianity, as well as Christianity and religion in general.

   
   

   
   

   
   

How does religion flow through a family? (Latin X pg 503)

“Parents have the responsibility of socializing their children into religious traditions and often struggle to do so, and that transmission works only in one direction, from grandparents to parents to children.”

What were the three responses from the Native Americans when Christianity was pushed onto them?

Rejection, Adoption, Appropriation

What is the context for emergence in African American Christianity?

With African American Christianities, the context for the emergence: slavery, civil rights movement, because some of them were not able to read they would use music

Whats a difference between African American experiences and Native American?

In contrast to native american communities, one of the things that makes african american experiences in the us are that they experienced forced migration

How did Slave Owners use the bible?

Slave owners would use the bible to justify their actions (ex: the curse of ham)

What did Black Churches mean to the Civil Rights Movement?

Black churches were a big part of the civil rights movement, they were often a safe haven (sanctuary) for black people during this time. There was also a divide between the ollowers wanting to be more involved and the priests not wanting to.

How did slaves communicate to one another?

Music was a way to communicate with other slaves: code (spirituals). They were hiding their plans from the slave owners but communication to one another about places to meet, their next moves, etc.

What does the author in the Asian-American module mean by the term “honorific white?”

The author uses the word "honorific white" to describe how racism is seen as just a Black and white issue.

What does double-belonging mean?

The claim that one can be part of two traditions simultaneously. 

What is the difference between Asian American?

Asian-American isn’t an either/or; some have argued there’s a space in between the word, calling it hybridity(both/and) to claim that one is both at the same time

What does a “Model Minority” mean?

• Is a group held up to be a model minority to the extent that they are perceived to assimilate

• They want to integrate in a way where one takes on while leaving behind aspects that are particular to one cultural way of being 

What does WASP mean?

white-anglo-saxon-protestant

What does “God doesn’t come with a passport mean"?”

They don’t check their religion, culture, language, or identity at the border; it comes with them. People don’t leave behind who they are when they immigrate to another context

What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?

An act created by Congress that did not allow the Chinese to become citizens. They immigrated to this country in part for work. Their labor was used to build our railroads, but the United States turned around afterwards and denied them citizenship. 

What happened to the Japanese in the 20th century?

They were rounded up and put into camps due to a “national safety crisis” because of Hiroshima. These were American citizens, a good number of them. They didn’t look a certain way, “presented” a certain way. 

What is naming in terms of LatinX?

Thinking collectively about shared history, shared political struggle, and shared identity but not completely.

Where did the word “hispanic” rise from?

The use of the word Hispanic emerged during Richard Nixon’s presidency to categorize people who spoke spanish, to describe the groups of people who claim the spanish language. It is also used to claim people with spanish heritage 

what was the term used for?

The term was used to collectively describe people from Latin America

What is a common stereotype members from the LatinX community face?

The assumption is that if a LatinX member is religious, they are Christian. Within the past 20-30 years, people who have studied religion in the Latinx community they’ve paid attention to the diversity in the religious traditions. It’s not unheard of to encounter Latin X Hinduism, muslim, and more. 

What happens in Pentecostal churches?

Within the context of Pentecostal services and charismatics, one distinguishing feature is that people may experience the gift of speaking in tongues. Another thing was you went to church every single day, compared to Catholicism, where it was limited 

What does it mean to “speak tongue"?”

They have an experience that they claim is initiated by god’s spirit, known as speaking in tongues.

What is spiritual borderlands?

The Spiritual Borderlands is a place where some Latino Christians find themselves stuck in the middle when it comes to faith and identity

Why did they reject Christianity?

This is because it’s not a tradition that they recognize as their own its tradition as they see it being opposed to them from the outside because of the means that accompany the introduction to this tradition. Sometimes, the Christian tradition was introduced with violence. 

Why did they adopt christianity?

If the christian tradition was offering sources such as health, nutrition, technological advances, the reality was that communities would “play along” by adopting the tradition but not incorporating it as their own 

Why did they appropiate Christianity?

they were still able to see something in the Christian tradition that resonated with them