Why is religion so diverse?
Why is religion so diverse?
I believe that one ought to know the definition(s) of religion and diversity before they can even begin to find the answer(s) to the above question.
Religion is the belief in, worship of, or obedience to a supernatural power or powers considered to be divine or have control of human destiny.
Religion is an organized collection of beliefs, cultural system, and world views that relate humanity to an order of existence.
Diversity is a term used broadly to refer to using demographic variables including but not limited to race, religion, color, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, age education, geographic origin and skills characteristics.
America 's diversity has given this country its unique strength, resilience and values.
Diversity has been one of the distinguishing features of religious life in North America ever since the first days of European settlement and even before with the wide variety of Native cultures. Religious groups have accommodated to one another where rampant ethnic and religious diversity forced various groups to find some way to coexist.
Religious diversity not only had an ethnic valence, it was racial as well. The story of religious diversity in the nineteenth century is tied inextricably to immigration.
(Inextricably meaning to be incapable of being disentangled or untied.)
There were many Americans who were brought to the New World as slaves and chose to "adopt" the Christianity of their captors, while others chose to retain vestiges of their ancestral religions, against formidable odds. With the massive urbanization of American society late in the nineteenth century, various religious and ethnic groups-Jews from Germany and Eastern Europe, Roman Catholics from Ireland and Italy- were thrown together into the cauldron of urban life. Despite inevitable differences and conflict, these groups eventually learned to coexist in the cities.
We ought to divert our attention to the
I believe that one ought to know the definition(s) of religion and diversity before they can even begin to find the answer(s) to the above question.
Religion is the belief in, worship of, or obedience to a supernatural power or powers considered to be divine or have control of human destiny.
Religion is an organized collection of beliefs, cultural system, and world views that relate humanity to an order of existence.
Diversity is a term used broadly to refer to using demographic variables including but not limited to race, religion, color, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, age education, geographic origin and skills characteristics.
America 's diversity has given this country its unique strength, resilience and values.
Diversity has been one of the distinguishing features of religious life in North America ever since the first days of European settlement and even before with the wide variety of Native cultures. Religious groups have accommodated to one another where rampant ethnic and religious diversity forced various groups to find some way to coexist.
Religious diversity not only had an ethnic valence, it was racial as well. The story of religious diversity in the nineteenth century is tied inextricably to immigration.
(Inextricably meaning to be incapable of being disentangled or untied.)
There were many Americans who were brought to the New World as slaves and chose to "adopt" the Christianity of their captors, while others chose to retain vestiges of their ancestral religions, against formidable odds. With the massive urbanization of American society late in the nineteenth century, various religious and ethnic groups-Jews from Germany and Eastern Europe, Roman Catholics from Ireland and Italy- were thrown together into the cauldron of urban life. Despite inevitable differences and conflict, these groups eventually learned to coexist in the cities.
We ought to divert our attention to the
Cited: McKim, Ronald: (2001, Religious Ambiguity and Religious Diversity, Oxford: Oxford Press.–––, 2008, “A Path to (and beyond) Tolerance,” in Religious Tolerance Through Epistemic Humility: Thinking With Philip Quinn, J. Kraft and D. Basinger, (eds.), Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company) Putnam, Robert D. : (“American Grace: How Religion Divides And Unites Us” November 2, 2011)