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  2. Bible Belt - Wikipedia

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    Texas. Virginia. The term Bible Belt refers to a region of the Southern United States and the Midwestern state of Missouri (which also has significant Southern influence), where Christian Protestanism exerts a strong social and cultural influence. The region has been described as one of the most socially conservative across the United States ...

  3. Bible Belt (Netherlands) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. List of belt regions of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Fruit Belt, an area where fruit growing is prominent, specially oranges at the state of Florida and grapes at California. Indiana Gas Belt, a region of Indiana that was the site of a natural gas boom in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Jell-O Belt, also known as the Mormon corridor or Mormon belt, western states with a large Mormon ...

  5. Bible Belt (Norway) - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  6. Cilice - Wikipedia

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    A cilice / ˈsɪlɪs /, also known as a sackcloth, [ 1] was originally a garment or undergarment made of coarse cloth or animal hair (a hairshirt) worn close to the skin. It is used by members of various Christian traditions (including the Catholic, [ 2] Lutheran, [ 3] Anglican, [ 4] Methodist, [ 5] and Scottish Presbyterian churches) [ 6] as a ...

  7. Agabus - Wikipedia

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    February 13 (Roman Catholic) March 8 (Eastern Orthodox) Patronage. prophets. Agabus ( / ˈæɡəbəs /; Greek: Ἄγαβος, romanized : Hágabos; Syriac: ܚܓܒ, romanized : Ḥagabo) was an early follower of Christianity from Syria mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles as a prophet. He is traditionally remembered as one of the Seventy ...

  8. Historicity of the Bible - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The historicity of the Bible is the question of the Bible 's relationship to history —covering not just the Bible's acceptability as history but also the ability to understand the literary forms of biblical narrative. [ 1] One can extend biblical historicity to the evaluation of whether or not the Christian New Testament is an accurate ...

  9. Bible - Wikipedia

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    The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions. The Bible is an anthology (a compilation of texts of a variety of forms ...