Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Cultural Christians are those who received Christian values or appreciate Christian culture. They may be non-practicing Christians, non-theists, apatheists, transtheists, deists, pantheists, or atheists. These individuals may identify as culturally Christian because of family background, personal experiences, or the social and cultural ...
Scholars differ in the characteristics and specificity they attribute to "counterculture". "Mainstream" culture is of course also difficult to define, and in some ways becomes identified and understood through contrast with counterculture. Counterculture might oppose mass culture (or "media culture"), [9] or middle-class culture and values. [10]
This model recognizes the deep ambiguity and even antigospel character of context. In regard to so much of western culture, it seems that Christianity today must speak a word of radical dissent and offer an alternate way of living. [16] However, this model have four areas of caution. First, the danger that this model to be anticultural.
London became synonymous with fashion, music, and pop culture in these years, a period often referred to as "Swinging London". During this time, mod fashions spread to other countries and became popular in the United States and elsewhere—with mod now viewed less as an isolated subculture, but emblematic of the larger youth culture of the era.
The scholar of religion George D. Chryssides called it "a counter-cultural Zeitgeist", [13] while the sociologist of religion Steven Bruce suggested that New Age was a milieu; [14] Heelas and scholar of religion Linda Woodhead called it the "holistic milieu". [15]
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Christianity by country. Christianity is a religion open to all humanity [5] that counts one out of every three people on earth among its members. [5] The Christian world encompasses a greater area of land than that of any other religious territory. [8] In terms of both population and geography, Christianity is the world's largest religion. [9]
The Christian countercult movement or the Christian anti-cult movement is a social movement among certain Protestant evangelical and fundamentalist [1] and other Christian ministries ("discernment ministries" [2]) and individual activists who oppose religious sects that they consider cults.