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Racial segregation of churches in the United States is a pattern of Christian churches maintaining segregated congregations based on race. As of 2001, as many as 87% of Christian churches in the United States were completely made up of only white or African-American parishioners.
Although Rastafari focuses on Africa as a source of identity, it is a product of creolisation processes in the Americas, [12] described by the Hispanic studies scholars Margarite Fernández Olmos and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert as "a Creole religion, rooted in African, European, and Indian practices and beliefs". [13]
Religion of Black Americans refers to the religious and spiritual practices of African Americans. Historians generally agree that the religious life of Black Americans "forms the foundation of their community life". [1] Before 1775 there was scattered evidence of organized religion among Black people in the Thirteen Colonies.
The White racial identity attitude scale was developed by African American Psychologists, Janet Helms and Robert Carter in 1990. It was designed and consists of 50 items to help understand the attitudes reflecting the five-status model of the White racial identity development (contact, disintegration, reintegration/pseudo independence, immersion/emersion, and autonomy). [5]
Whiteness theory is a field within whiteness studies concerned with what white identity means in terms of social, political, racial, economic, culture, etc. [1] Whiteness theory posits that if some Western societies make whiteness central to their respective national and cultural identities, their white populations may become blind to the privilege associated with White identity.
Whiteness studies is the study of the structures that produce white privilege, [1] the examination of what whiteness is when analyzed as a race, a culture, and a source of systemic racism, [2] and the exploration of other social phenomena generated by the societal compositions, perceptions and group behaviors of white people. [3]
St. Paul the Apostle, a founder of the Church of Rome, emphasized in Galatians 3:28 that membership of the Church was "catholic", as in being open to all nations of mankind based on faith, not just ethnic Jews. The Catholic Church and race refers to the teachings, practices and approaches of the Catholic Church in regard to the human races. The ...
White is a primary color across all models of color space. It most often symbolizes perfection, faith, innocence, softness, and cleanliness. [21] Brides often wear white dresses to symbolize purity. [22] However, in some Asian and Slavic cultures, as well as Ancient Egypt, white represents death and/or mourning.