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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Texas. Virginia. The Black Belt in the American South refers to the social history, especially concerning slavery and black workers, of the geological region known as the Black Belt. The geology emphasizes the highly fertile black soil. Historically, the black belt economy was based on cotton plantations – along with some tobacco plantation ...
Bible Belt is an informal term for a region in the southeastern and south-central United States in which socially conservative evangelical Protestantism is a significant part of the culture. The term is also used more generically for a similar region in any country that is more conservative and religious than the country as a whole, such as:
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 ...