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The name "Bible Belt" has been applied historically to the South and parts of the Midwest, but is more commonly identified with the South. [6] In a 1961 study, Wilbur Zelinsky delineated the region as the area in which Protestant denominations, especially Southern Baptist, Methodist, and evangelical, are the predominant religious affiliations.
The Bible Belt ( Dutch: bijbelgordel, biblebelt) is a strip of land in the Netherlands with the highest concentration of conservative orthodox Reformed Protestants in the country. Although the term is of recent origin (named by analogy after the Bible Belt of the United States) the Dutch Bible Belt has existed for many generations.
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The Norwegian Bible Belt (Norwegian: bibelbeltet) is a loosely defined southwestern coastal area of Norway, which is more religiously observant than most of the rest of the country. [ 1] Typically, the definition covers Western Norway (Vestlandet) and Southern Norway (Sørlandet), which includes the counties of Rogaland (typically called the ...
Early life. John B. Boles was born on October 20, 1943, in Houston, Texas, to Billie and Mary Boles. After WWII ended, his parents returned to their hometown of Center, Texas, a rural, racially segregated Bible Belt town. They raised cotton and later, chickens; Mr. Boles also drove a taxi.
Goliath. David and Goliath, a color lithograph by Osmar Schindler (c. 1888) Goliath ( / ɡəˈlaɪəθ / gə-LY-əth) [ a] is a Philistine warrior in the Book of Samuel. Descriptions of Goliath's immense stature vary among biblical sources, with the Masoretic Text describing him as 9 feet 9 inches (2.97 m) tall. [ 1]
The Swedish Bible Belt ( Swedish: bibelbältet) is a region centered on Jönköping in northern Småland where demographics show that people are characteristically more religious. [1] In the Bible Belt the free churches are relatively popular in comparison to the Church of Sweden. [1] Of the Småland counties, Jönköping is characterised by ...
The U.S. is sending the USS Georgia guided missile submarine to the Middle East "in light of escalating regional tensions," the Pentagon said.