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318 relations: Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas, Abortion, Acadiana, Adelaide, Agder, Aguascalientes, Alabama, Alberta, American Baptist College, American Bible Society, Anabaptism, Appalachian Mountains, Archives of American Art, Arkansas, Aruba, Assyrian Church of the East, Auckland, Australia, Awakening (Finnish religious movement), Šalčininkai District Municipality, Ballymena, Ballymoney, Baltic states, Banana belt, Baptists in Ukraine, Barry A. Vann, Batavia (region), Belmont University, Bible, Bible Belt (Netherlands), Bible Belt (Norway), Bible Belt (Sweden), Biblica, Biblical literalism, Billy James Hargis, Billy Joe Daugherty, Birmingham, Alabama, Blue wall (U.S. politics), Bob Jones University, Bonaire, Born again, Boston Avenue Methodist Church, Brisbane, Brittany, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, Calles Law, Calvin University, Camden Council (New South Wales), Carindale, Queensland, ... Expand index (268 more) »
- Belt regions of the United States
- Bible belts
- Christian fundamentalism in the United States
- Christianity in the United States
- Cultural regions of the United States
- Regions of the Southern United States
- Religion in the Southern United States
- Social conservatism in the United States
Abilene Christian University
Abilene Christian University (ACU) is a private Christian university in Abilene, Texas.
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Abilene, Texas
Abilene is a city in Taylor and Jones County, Texas, United States.
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Abortion
Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus.
Acadiana
Acadiana (French and Louisiana French: L'Acadiane), also known as the Cajun Country (Louisiana French: Le Pays Cadjin, País Cajún), is the official name given to the French Louisiana region that has historically contained much of the state's Francophone population. Bible Belt and Acadiana are cultural regions of the United States.
Adelaide
Adelaide (Tarntanya) is the capital and most populous city of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The demonym Adelaidean is used to denote the city and the residents of Adelaide.
Agder
Agder is a county and traditional region in the southern part of Norway and is coextensive with the Southern Norway region.
Aguascalientes
Aguascalientes, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Aguascalientes (Estado Libre y Soberano de Aguascalientes), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico.
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Alabama
Alabama is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
Alberta
Alberta is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.
American Baptist College
American Baptist College (previously American Baptist Theological Seminary) is a private, Baptist college in Nashville, Tennessee, affiliated with the National Baptist Convention, USA.
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American Bible Society
American Bible Society is a U.S.-based Christian nonprofit headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Anabaptism
Anabaptism (from Neo-Latin anabaptista, from the Greek ἀναβαπτισμός: ἀνά 're-' and βαπτισμός 'baptism'; Täufer, earlier also Wiedertäufer)Since the middle of the 20th century, the German-speaking world no longer uses the term Wiedertäufer (translation: "Re-baptizers"), considering it biased.
Appalachian Mountains
The Appalachian Mountains, often called the Appalachians, are a mountain range in eastern to northeastern North America.
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Archives of American Art
The Archives of American Art is the largest collection of primary resources documenting the history of the visual arts in the United States.
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Arkansas
Arkansas is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States.
Aruba
Aruba, officially the Country of Aruba (Land Aruba; Pais Aruba), is a constituent country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, situated in the south of the Caribbean Sea.
Assyrian Church of the East
The Assyrian Church of the East (ACOE), sometimes called the Church of the East and officially known as the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East (HACACE), is an Eastern Christian church that follows the traditional Christology and ecclesiology of the historical Church of the East.
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Auckland
Auckland (Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. It has an urban population of about It is located in the greater Auckland Region, the area governed by Auckland Council, which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, and which has a total population of as of It is the most populous city of New Zealand and the fifth largest city in Oceania.
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
Awakening (Finnish religious movement)
The Awakening (herännäisyys,; or körttiläisyys) is a Lutheran religious movement in Finland which has found followers in the provinces of Savo and Ostrobothnia.
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Šalčininkai District Municipality
Šalčininkai District Municipality (Šalčininkų rajono savivaldybė) is one of 60 district municipalities in Lithuania.
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Ballymena
Ballymena (from an Baile Meánach, meaning 'the middle townland') is a town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
Ballymoney
Ballymoney (Baile Monaidh, meaning 'townland of the moor') is a town and civil parish in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
Baltic states
The Baltic states or the Baltic countries is a geopolitical term encompassing Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
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Banana belt
A banana belt is any segment of a larger geographic region that enjoys warmer weather conditions than the region as a whole, especially in the wintertime.
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Baptists in Ukraine
The Baptist Church in Ukraine (Баптизм в Україні) is one of the oldest and most widespread Evangelical Christian denominations in the country.
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Barry A. Vann
Barry Aron Vann (born March 30, 1960) is an American author, speaker and retired Dean of Behavioral and Social Sciences at Colorado Christian University.
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Batavia (region)
Batavia is a historical and geographical region in the Netherlands, forming large fertile islands in the river delta formed by the waters of the Rhine (Dutch: Rijn) and Meuse (Dutch: Maas) rivers.
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Belmont University
Belmont University is a private Christian university in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Bible
The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία,, '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.
Bible Belt (Netherlands)
The Bible Belt (bijbelgordel, biblebelt) is a strip of land in the Netherlands with the highest concentration of conservative orthodox Reformed Protestants in the country. Bible Belt and bible Belt (Netherlands) are bible belts and cultural regions.
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Bible Belt (Norway)
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. Bible Belt and Bible Belt (Norway) are bible belts and cultural regions.
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Bible Belt (Sweden)
The Swedish Bible Belt (bibelbältet) is a region centered on Jönköping in northern Småland where demographics show that people are characteristically more religious. Bible Belt and Bible Belt (Sweden) are bible belts and cultural regions.
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Biblica
Biblica, formerly International Bible Society, was founded in 1809 and is the worldwide copyright holder of the New International Version of the Bible (NIV), licensing commercial rights to Zondervan in the United States and to Hodder & Stoughton in the United Kingdom.
Biblical literalism
Biblical literalism or biblicism is a term used differently by different authors concerning biblical interpretation.
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Billy James Hargis
Billy James Hargis (August 3, 1925 – November 27, 2004) was an American Christian evangelist.
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Billy Joe Daugherty
Billy Joe Daugherty (April 23, 1952 – November 22, 2009) was founder and pastor of Victory Christian Center (now Victory Church) in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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Birmingham, Alabama
Birmingham is a city in the north central region of Alabama.
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Blue wall (U.S. politics)
The "blue wall" is a term used by political pundits to refer to eighteen U.S. states and the District of Columbia that the Democratic Party won in each presidential election from 1992 to 2012.
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Bob Jones University
Bob Jones University (BJU) is a private university in Greenville, South Carolina, United States. Bible Belt and Bob Jones University are conservatism in the United States.
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Bonaire
Bonaire (Papiamento) is a Caribbean island in the Leeward Antilles, and is a special municipality (officially "public body") of the Netherlands.
Born again
To be born again, or to experience the new birth, is a phrase, particularly in evangelicalism, that refers to a "spiritual rebirth", or a regeneration of the human spirit.
Boston Avenue Methodist Church
The Boston Avenue United Methodist Church, located in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma, and completed in 1929, is considered to be one of the finest examples of ecclesiastical Art Deco architecture in the United States, and has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Brisbane
Brisbane (Meanjin) is the capital of the state of Queensland and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million.
Brittany
Brittany (Bretagne,; Breizh,; Gallo: Bertaèyn or Bertègn) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the north-west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation.
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
Broken Arrow is a city in Tulsa and Wagoner counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.
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Calles Law
The Calles Law, or Law for Reforming the Penal Code (ley de tolerancia de cultos, "law of worship tolerance"), was a statute enacted in Mexico in 1926, under the presidency of Plutarco Elías Calles, to enforce restrictions against the Catholic Church in Article 130 of the Mexican Constitution of 1917.
Calvin University
Calvin University, formerly Calvin College, is a private Christian university in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Camden Council (New South Wales)
Camden Council is a local government area in the Macarthur region of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
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Carindale, Queensland
Carindale is a suburb of the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Carlos Monsiváis
Carlos Monsiváis Aceves (May 4, 1938 – June 19, 2010) was a Mexican philosopher, writer, critic, political activist, and journalist.
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Carlton Pearson
Carlton D'Metrius Pearson (March 19, 1953 – November 19, 2023) was an American Christian minister and gospel music artist.
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Carol Stream, Illinois
Carol Stream is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States, and a suburb of Chicago.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Catholic Church in Mexico
The Mexican Catholic Church, or Catholic Church in Mexico, is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope, his Curia in Rome and the national Mexican Episcopal Conference.
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Central Florida
Central Florida is a region of the U.S. state of Florida.
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Chaldean Catholic Church
The Chaldean Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic particular church (sui iuris) in full communion with the Holy See and the rest of the Catholic Church, and is headed by the Chaldean Patriarchate.
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Charismatic Christianity
Charismatic Christianity is a form of Christianity that emphasizes the work of the Holy Spirit and spiritual gifts as an everyday part of a believer's life.
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Charleston, West Virginia
Charleston is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of West Virginia and the county seat of Kanawha County.
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Charlotte, North Carolina
Charlotte is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina and the county seat of Mecklenburg County.
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Chattanooga, Tennessee
Chattanooga is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States.
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Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.
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Christian Democrats (Finland)
The Christian Democrats (CD; Suomen Kristillisdemokraatit; Kristdemokraterna i Finland, KD) is a Christian-democratic political party in Finland.
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Christian fundamentalism
Christian fundamentalism, also known as fundamental Christianity or fundamentalist Christianity, is a religious movement emphasizing biblical literalism.
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Christian music
Christian music is music that has been written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life and faith.
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Christian right
The Christian right, otherwise referred to as the religious right, are Christian political factions characterized by their strong support of socially conservative and traditionalist policies. Bible Belt and Christian right are conservatism in the United States, evangelicalism in the United States and social conservatism in the United States.
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Christianity Today
Christianity Today is an evangelical Christian media magazine founded in 1956 by Billy Graham.
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Church Association for the Inner Mission in Denmark
The Church Association for the Inner Mission in Denmark (Kirkelig Forening for den Indre Mission i Danmark), or in short form Inner Mission (Danish: Indre Mission) is a conservative Lutheran Christian organisation in Denmark.
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Church attendance
Church attendance is a central religious practice for many Christians; some Christian denominations, such as the Catholic Church require church attendance on the Lord's Day (Sunday); the Westminster Confession of Faith is held by the Reformed Churches and teaches first-day Sabbatarianism (Sunday Sabbatarianism), thus proclaiming the duty of public worship in keeping with the Ten Commandments.
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Church of England
The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies.
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City of Penrith
The City of Penrith is a local government area in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
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CityLife Church
CityLife Church is a multi-site, Pentecostal Megachurch located in Melbourne, Australia, with weekly services at their campus locations in the localities of Knox, Casey, Manningham, Melbourne CBD and Whittlesea and on their.
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Colorado Springs, Colorado
Colorado Springs is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Colorado, United States.
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Compassion International
Compassion International is an American child sponsorship and Christian humanitarian aid organization headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, that aims to positively influence the long-term development of children globally who live in poverty.
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Connecticut
Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.
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Conservative holiness movement
The conservative holiness movement is a loosely defined group of theologically conservative Christian denominations with the majority being Methodists whose teachings are rooted in the theology of John Wesley, and a minority being Quakers (Friends) that emphasize the doctrine of George Fox, as well as River Brethren who emerged out of the Radical Pietist revival, and Holiness Restorationists in the tradition of Daniel Sidney Warner.
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Cornerstone University
Cornerstone University is a private Christian university in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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County Antrim
County Antrim (named after the town of Antrim) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, located within the historic province of Ulster.
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Cristero War
The Cristero War (La Guerra Cristera), also known as the Cristero Rebellion or italics, was a widespread struggle in central and western Mexico from 3 August 1926 to 21 June 1929 in response to the implementation of secularist and anticlerical articles of the 1917 Constitution.
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Crossway
Crossway (previously known by its parent ministry Good News Publishers) is a not-for-profit evangelical Christian publishing ministry headquartered in Wheaton, Illinois.
Crossway Baptist Church
Crossway Baptist Church is a Baptist evangelical multi-site megachurch based in Burwood East, in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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Curaçao
Curaçao (or, or, Papiamentu), officially the Country of Curaçao (Land Curaçao; Papiamentu: Pais Kòrsou), is a Lesser Antilles island in the southern Caribbean Sea, specifically the Dutch Caribbean region, about north of Venezuela.
David C. Cook
David C. Cook is an American nonprofit Christian publisher based in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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Deep South
The Deep South or the Lower South is a cultural and geographic subregion of the Southern United States. Bible Belt and Deep South are regions of the Southern United States.
Delaware
Delaware is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern region of the United States.
Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
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DuPage County, Illinois
DuPage County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois, and one of the collar counties of the Chicago metropolitan area.
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Ecumenical creeds
Ecumenical creeds is an umbrella term used in Lutheran tradition to refer to three creeds: the Nicene Creed, the Apostles' Creed and the Athanasian Creed.
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El Paso, Texas
El Paso is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States.
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Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania – Christian Families Alliance
Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania – Christian Families Alliance or EAPL–CFA (Lietuvos lenkų rinkimų akcija – Krikščioniškų šeimų sąjunga or LLRA–KŠS; Akcja Wyborcza Polaków na Litwie – Związek Chrześcijańskich Rodzin or AWPL–ZCHR) is a political party in Lithuania.
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Elmhurst University
Elmhurst University is a private university in Elmhurst, Illinois.
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Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church
The Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church (EAOC; Eesti Apostlik-Õigeusu Kirik) is an Orthodox church in Estonia under the direct jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
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Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Saxony
The Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Saxony is one of 20 member Churches of the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD), covering most of the state of Saxony.
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Evangelicalism
Evangelicalism, also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that emphasizes the centrality of sharing the "good news" of Christianity, being "born again" in which an individual experiences personal conversion, as authoritatively guided by the Bible, God's revelation to humanity.
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Evangelicalism in the United States
In the United States, evangelicalism is a movement among Protestant Christians who believe in the necessity of being born again, emphasize the importance of evangelism, and affirm traditional Protestant teachings on the authority as well as the historicity of the Bible.
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Fairfield City Council
The Fairfield City Council is a local government area in the west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
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Fairfield, New South Wales
Fairfield is a suburb of Western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
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First Presbyterian Church (Tulsa)
The First Presbyterian Church of Tulsa was organized in 1885 in Creek Nation, Indian Territory, before statehood.
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Focus on the Family
Focus on the Family (FOTF or FotF) is a fundamentalist Protestant organization founded in 1977 in Southern California by James Dobson, based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Bible Belt and Focus on the Family are Christian fundamentalism in the United States.
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Free church
A free church is any Christian denomination that is intrinsically separate from government (as opposed to a state church).
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Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster
The Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster is a Calvinist denomination founded by Ian Paisley in 1951.
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Futures Church
Futures Church, formerly Influencers Church, is a Pentecostal church affiliated to the Assemblies of God, with congregations in the state of South Australia, Australia, and in the southern United States.
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George Liele
George Liele (also spelled Lisle or Leile, c. 1750–1820) was an African American and emancipated slave who became the founding pastor of First Bryan Baptist Church and First African Baptist Church, in Savannah, Georgia (USA).
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Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
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Golden Grove, South Australia
Golden Grove is an outer north-eastern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia and is within the City of Tea Tree Gully local government area.
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Gospel Music Association
The Gospel Music Association (GMA) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1964 for the purpose of supporting and promoting the development of all forms of gospel music.
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Grace Christian University
Grace Christian University is a private evangelical Christian university in Wyoming, Michigan.
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Grand Rapids, Michigan
Grand Rapids is a city in and county seat of Kent County, Michigan, United States.
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Great Awakening
The Great Awakening was a series of religious revivals in American Christian history. Bible Belt and Great Awakening are history of religion in the United States.
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Great Lakes region
The Great Lakes region of Northern America is a binational Canadian–American region centered around the Great Lakes that includes the U.S. states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin and the Canadian province of Ontario.
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Greater Western Sydney
Greater Western Sydney (GWS) is a large region of the metropolitan area of Greater Sydney, New South Wales (NSW), Australia that generally embraces the north-west, south-west, central-west, far western and the Blue Mountains sub-regions within Sydney's metropolitan area and encompasses 11 local government areas: Blacktown, Blue Mountains, Camden, Campbelltown, Cumberland, Fairfield, Hawkesbury, Liverpool, Parramatta, Penrith and Wollondilly.
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Greenville, South Carolina
Greenville (locally) is a city in and the county seat of Greenville County, South Carolina, United States.
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Guanajuato
Guanajuato, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Guanajuato (Estado Libre y Soberano de Guanajuato), is one of the 32 states that make up the Federal Entities of Mexico.
H. L. Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English.
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Hardin–Simmons University
Hardin–Simmons University (HSU) is a private Baptist university in Abilene, Texas, United States.
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Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953.
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Hedensted
Hedensted is a Danish town in Region Midtjylland and the seat of Hedensted Municipality.
High church Lutheranism
High church Lutheranism is a movement that began in 20th-century Europe and emphasizes worship practices and doctrines that are similar to those found within Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Anglo-Catholicism.
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Hills District, New South Wales
The Hills District (alternatively the Hills) is a region of Sydney, within the northern part of the Greater Western Sydney region of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
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Hillsong Church
Hillsong Church, commonly known as Hillsong, is a charismatic Christian megachurch and a Christian association of churches based in Australia.
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Hindi Belt
The Hindi Belt, also known as the Hindi Heartland, is a linguistic region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India where various Northern, Central, Eastern and Western Indo-Aryan languages are spoken, which in a broader sense is termed as Hindi languages, with Standard Hindi (based on Dehlavi) serving as the lingua franca of the region.
Holland, Michigan
Holland is a city in Ottawa and Allegan Counties in the western region of the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Hope College
Hope College is a private Christian liberal arts college in Holland, Michigan.
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Horsley Park, New South Wales
Horsley Park is a suburb of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
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Huntsville, Alabama
Huntsville is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Alabama.
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Ian Paisley
Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Baron Bannside, (6 April 1926 – 12 September 2014) was a loyalist politician and Protestant religious leader from Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) from 1971 to 2008 and First Minister of Northern Ireland from 2007 to 2008.
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Illinois
Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
Independent Baptist
Independent Baptist churches (also called Independent Fundamental Baptist or IFB) are Christian congregations, generally holding to conservative (primarily fundamentalist) Baptist beliefs.
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Indiana
Indiana is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
InterVarsity Press
Founded in 1947, InterVarsity Press (IVP) is an American publisher of Christian books located in Lisle, Illinois.
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Irreligion
Irreligion is the absence or rejection of religious beliefs or practices.
Jackson, Mississippi
Jackson is the capital of and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Mississippi.
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Jalisco
Jalisco, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Jalisco (Estado Libre y Soberano de Jalisco), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico.
Jönköping
Jönköping is a city in southern Sweden with 112,766 inhabitants (2022).
Jönköping County
Jönköping County (Jönköpings län) is a county or län in southern Sweden.
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Jehovah's Witnesses
Jehovah's Witnesses is a nontrinitarian, millenarian, restorationist Christian denomination.
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Jesus
Jesus (AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and many other names and titles, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader.
Jesusland map
The Jesusland map is an Internet meme created shortly after the 2004 U.S. presidential election that satirizes the red/blue states scheme by dividing the United States and Canada into "The United States of Canada" and "Jesusland".
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Joel Osteen
Joel Scott Osteen (born March 5, 1963) is an American pastor, televangelist, businessman, and author based in Houston, Texas, United States.
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Joondalup
Joondalup is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, approximately north of Perth's central business district.
Jutland
Jutland (Jylland, Jyske Halvø or Cimbriske Halvø; Jütland, Kimbrische Halbinsel or Jütische Halbinsel) is a peninsula of Northern Europe that forms the continental portion of Denmark and part of northern Germany (Schleswig-Holstein).
Kalmar County
Kalmar County is a county or län in southern Sweden.
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KCFO
KCFO (970 AM) is a Tulsa, Oklahoma talk radio station.
Kenneth Copeland
Kenneth Max Copeland (born December 6, 1936) is an American televangelist associated with the charismatic movement.
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Kenneth E. Hagin
Kenneth Erwin Hagin (August 20, 1917 – September 19, 2003) was an American preacher.
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Kentucky
Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
KGEB
KGEB (channel 53) is a religious television station in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, owned by Oral Roberts University.
Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville is a city in and the county seat of Knox County, Tennessee, United States.
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KNYD
KNYD (90.5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Christian radio format.
KPIM-LP
KPIM-LP (102.9 FM) is a low-power FM radio station licensed to Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, United States.
Kronoberg County
Kronoberg County (Kronobergs län) is a county or län in southern Sweden.
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Kuyper College
Kuyper College is a private Christian college in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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KWHB
KWHB (channel 47) is a religious television station in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, owned and operated by the Christian Television Network (CTN).
KXOJ-FM
KXOJ-FM (94.1 MHz) is a Christian adult contemporary radio station licensed to Glenpool, Oklahoma, serving the Tulsa area.
Laestadianism
Laestadianism (Lestadiolaisuus), also known as Laestadian Lutheranism and Apostolic Lutheranism, is a pietistic Lutheran revival movement started in Sápmi in the middle of the 19th century.
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Lapland (Finland)
Lapland (Lappi; Lappi; Lappi; Lappland; Lapponia; Skolt Sami: Ла̄ппӣ мäддкåҍддь, Lappi mäddkå'dd) is the largest and northernmost region of Finland.
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Larne
Larne (the name of a Gaelic territory).
Larsmo
Larsmo (Luoto) is a municipality in Finland, located on the west coast of the country.
Løsning
Løsning is a town in Denmark.
LGBT rights in Denmark
Danish lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights are some of the most extensive in the world.
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Lipscomb University
Lipscomb University is a private Christian university in Nashville, Tennessee.
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List of belt regions of the United States
The belt regions of the United States are portions of the country that share certain characteristics. Bible Belt and List of belt regions of the United States are belt regions of the United States.
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List of radio stations in South Carolina
The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of South Carolina, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats.
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List of U.S. states and territories by religiosity
The degree of religiosity in the population of the United States can be compared to that in other countries and compared state-by-state, based on individual self-assessment and polling data. Bible Belt and List of U.S. states and territories by religiosity are history of religion in the United States.
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Lithuania
Lithuania (Lietuva), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe.
Little Rock, Arkansas
Little Rock (I’i-zhinka) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arkansas.
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Louisiana
Louisiana (Louisiane; Luisiana; Lwizyàn) is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States.
Lutheranism
Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that identifies primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church ended the Middle Ages and, in 1517, launched the Reformation.
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Lynchburg, Virginia
Lynchburg is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.
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Mainline Protestant
The mainline Protestant churches (sometimes also known as oldline Protestants) are a group of Protestant denominations in the United States and Canada largely of the theologically liberal or theologically progressive persuasion that contrast in history and practice with the largely theologically conservative Evangelical, Fundamentalist, Charismatic, Confessional, Confessing Movement, historically Black church, and Global South Protestant denominations and congregations. Bible Belt and mainline Protestant are 1920s neologisms.
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Manitoba
Manitoba is a province of Canada at the longitudinal centre of the country.
Mansfield, Queensland
Mansfield is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board
Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board is one of the 21 local boards of the Auckland Council, and is overseen by the council's Manukau ward councillors.
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McMurry University
McMurry University is a private Methodist university in Abilene, Texas, United States.
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Meänmaa
Our Land, or sometimes Torne Valley or Torne River Valley (Tornionlaakso; Tornedalen) lies at the border of Sweden and Finland.
Megachurch
A megachurch is a church with a very large membership that also offers a variety of educational and social activities.
Melbourne
Melbourne (Boonwurrung/Narrm or Naarm) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia, after Sydney.
Merriwa, Western Australia
Merriwa is a coastal, northern suburb of Perth, Western Australia, north of the central business district.
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Mexico
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.
Middle Colonies
The Middle Colonies were a subset of the Thirteen Colonies in British America, located between the New England Colonies and the Southern Colonies.
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Midwestern United States
The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the Midwest or the American Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau.
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Mike Huckabee
Michael Dale Huckabee (born August 24, 1955) is an American political commentator, Baptist minister, and former politician who served as the 44th governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007.
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Missionary
A missionary is a member of a religious group who is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.
Mississippi
Mississippi is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
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Missouri
Missouri is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
Modbury, South Australia
Modbury is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Tea Tree Gully.
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Mormon corridor
The Mormon corridor are the areas of western North America that were settled between 1850 and approximately 1890 by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), who are commonly called "Mormons". Bible Belt and Mormon corridor are cultural regions of the United States.
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Mount Gravatt, Queensland
Mount Gravatt is a southern suburb of the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia and a prominent hill and lookout within this suburb.
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Mount Roskill
Mount Roskill (Puketāpapa) is a suburban area in the city of Auckland, New Zealand.
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Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, often known as Music City, is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County.
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National Action Party (Mexico)
The National Action Party (Partido Acción Nacional, PAN) is a conservative political party in Mexico founded in 1939.
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National Association of Free Will Baptists
The National Association of Free Will Baptists (NAFWB) is a national body of Free Will Baptist churches in the United States and Canada, organized on November 5, 1935 in Nashville, Tennessee.
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National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.
The National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., more commonly known as the National Baptist Convention (NBC USA or NBC), is a Baptist Christian denomination headquartered at the Baptist World Center in Nashville, Tennessee and affiliated with the Baptist World Alliance.
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New Brunswick
New Brunswick (Nouveau-Brunswick) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.
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New England
New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Bible Belt and New England are cultural regions of the United States.
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New Jersey
New Jersey is a state situated within both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States.
New Orleans
New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or the Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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New York (state)
New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.
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New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
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New Zealand Labour Party
The New Zealand Labour Party, also known simply as Labour (Reipa), is a centre-left political party in New Zealand.
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North Antrim (UK Parliament constituency)
North Antrim is a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons.
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North Carolina
North Carolina is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.
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North Central College
North Central College is a private college in Naperville, Illinois.
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North Florida
North Florida is a region of the U.S. state of Florida comprising the northernmost part of the state.
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North Ostrobothnia
North Ostrobothnia (Pohjois-Pohjanmaa; Norra Österbotten) is a region of Finland.
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North Savo
North Savo (or Northern Savonia; Pohjois-Savo; Norra Savolax) is a region in eastern Finland.
Northern Arizona
Northern Arizona is an unofficial, colloquially defined region of the U.S. state of Arizona.
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Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland that is variously described as a country, province or region.
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Northern Seminary
Northern Seminary is a private Baptist seminary in Lisle, Illinois.
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Northern Virginia
Northern Virginia, locally referred to as NOVA or NoVA, comprises several counties and independent cities in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.
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Ohio
Ohio is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
Ohio River
The Ohio River is a river in the United States.
Oklahoma
Oklahoma (Choctaw: Oklahumma) is a state in the South Central region of the United States.
Oklahoma State University–Stillwater
Oklahoma State University–Stillwater (officially Oklahoma State University; informally OSU, OK State, Oklahoma State) is a public land-grant research university in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
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Old Believers
Old Believers or Old Ritualists are Eastern Orthodox Christians who maintain the liturgical and ritual practices of the Russian Orthodox Church as they were before the reforms of Patriarch Nikon of Moscow between 1652 and 1666.
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Oral Roberts University
Oral Roberts University (ORU) is a private evangelical university in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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Ore Mountains
The Ore Mountains (Erzgebirge, Krušné hory) lie along the Czech–German border, separating the historical regions of Bohemia in the Czech Republic and Saxony in Germany.
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Ostrobothnia (region)
Ostrobothnia (Österbotten; Pohjanmaa) is a region in western Finland.
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Overijssel
Overijssel (Oaveriessel; Oberyssel) is a province of the Netherlands located in the eastern part of the country.
Ozarks
The Ozarks, also known as the Ozark Mountains, Ozark Highlands or Ozark Plateau, is a physiographic region in the U.S. states of Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma and the extreme southeastern corner of Kansas.
Paradise, South Australia
Paradise is a northeastern suburb of Adelaide in South Australia.
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Parkano
Parkano is a town and municipality in Finland.
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.
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Pentecostalism
Pentecostalism or classical Pentecostalism is a Protestant Charismatic Christian movement that emphasizes direct personal experience of God through baptism with the Holy Spirit.
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Perho
Perho is a municipality of Finland.
Perth
Perth (Boorloo) is the capital city of Western Australia.
Pew Research Center
The Pew Research Center (also simply known as Pew) is a nonpartisan American think tank based in Washington, D.C. It provides information on social issues, public opinion, and demographic trends shaping the United States and the world.
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Phillips Theological Seminary
Phillips Theological Seminary is a private seminary affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and located in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.
Poland A and B
Poland A and B (Polska A i B) refers to the historical, political, and cultural distinction between the western and the eastern part of the country, with Poland "A", west of the Vistula, being much more developed and having faster growth than Poland "B", east of the river.
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Poles in Lithuania
The Poles of Lithuania (Polacy na Litwie, Lietuvos lenkai), also called Lithuanian Poles, estimated at 183,000 people in the Lithuanian census of 2021 or 6.5% of Lithuania's total population, are the country's largest ethnic minority.
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Protestantism
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.
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Puritans
The Puritans were English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to rid the Church of England of what they considered to be Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England had not been fully reformed and should become more Protestant.
Queensland
Queensland (commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states.
Querétaro
Querétaro, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Querétaro (Estado Libre y Soberano de Querétaro; Otomi: Hyodi Ndämxei), is one of the 32 federal entities of Mexico.
Quran Belt
A Quran Belt is a region where Islamic Values are strong.
Rabban Hormizd
Rabban Mar Hormizd (ܕܪܒܢ ܗܘܪܡܙܕ) was a monk who lived in the seventh century in modern northern Iraq.
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Reformed Christianity
Reformed Christianity, also called Calvinism, is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation, a schism in the Western Church.
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Rick Santorum
Richard John Santorum Sr. (born May 10, 1958) is an American politician, attorney, author, and political commentator who represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1995 to 2007.
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Right-wing populism
Right-wing populism, also called right populism, is a political ideology that combines right-wing politics with populist rhetoric and themes.
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Rogaland
Rogaland is a county in Western Norway, bordering the North Sea to the west and the counties of Vestland to the north, Telemark to the east and Agder to the east and southeast.
Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
Russian Orthodox Church
The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC; Russkaya pravoslavnaya tserkov', abbreviated as РПЦ), alternatively legally known as the Moscow Patriarchate (Moskovskiy patriarkhat), is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian church.
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Rust Belt
The Rust Belt, formerly the Steel Belt, is a region of the Northeastern, Midwestern United States, and the very northern parts of the Southern United States. Bible Belt and Rust Belt are belt regions of the United States.
Same-sex marriage
Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is the marriage of two people of the same legal sex.
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Saxony
Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic.
Seventh-day Adventist Church
The Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbath, its emphasis on the imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ, and its annihilationist soteriology.
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Shenandoah Valley
The Shenandoah Valley is a geographic valley and cultural region of western Virginia and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia in the United States.
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Shreveport, Louisiana
Shreveport is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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Shubal Stearns
Shubal Stearns (sometimes spelled Shubael; 28 January 1706 – November 20, 1771) was a colonial evangelist and preacher during the Great Awakening.
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Småland
Småland is a historical province (landskap) in southern Sweden.
Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.
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Smokie Norful
Willie Ray "Smokie" Norful Jr. is an American gospel singer and pianist.
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Social conservatism
Social conservatism is a political philosophy and a variety of conservatism which places emphasis on traditional social structures over social pluralism.
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South Carolina
South Carolina is a state in the coastal Southeastern region of the United States.
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South Florida
South Florida, sometimes colloquially shortened to SoFlo, is the southernmost region of the U.S. state of Florida.
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South Ostrobothnia
South Ostrobothnia (Etelä-Pohjanmaa; Södra Österbotten) is one of the 19 regions of Finland.
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South Sweden
South Sweden (Sydsverige) is a national area (riksområde) of Sweden.
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South Texas
South Texas is a region of the U.S. state of Texas that lies roughly south of—and includes—San Antonio.
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Southern Baptist Convention
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), alternatively the Great Commission Baptists (GCB), is a Baptist Christian denomination based in the United States. Bible Belt and Southern Baptist Convention are history of religion in the United States and religion in the Southern United States.
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Southern Idaho
Southern Idaho is a generic geographical term roughly analogous with the areas of the U.S. state of Idaho located in the Mountain Time Zone.
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Southern Norway
Southern Norway (Sørlandet; lit. "The Southland") is the geographical region (landsdel) along the Skagerrak coast of southern Norway.
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Southern United States
The Southern United States, sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States. Bible Belt and Southern United States are cultural regions of the United States.
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Southside (Virginia)
Southside, or Southside Virginia, has traditionally referred to the portion of the state south of the James River, the geographic feature from which the term derives its name.
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Spanish language
Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
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Springfield, Missouri
Springfield is the third most populous city in the U.S. state of Missouri and the county seat of Greene County.
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Springwood, Queensland
Springwood is a suburb in the City of Logan, Queensland, Australia.
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St. Louis
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Statistics New Zealand
Statistics New Zealand (Tatauranga Aotearoa), branded as Stats NZ, is the public service department of New Zealand charged with the collection of statistics related to the economy, population and society of New Zealand.
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Sutherland Shire
Sutherland Shire is a local government area in the southern region of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
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Sydney
Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia.
Ted Cruz
Rafael Edward Cruz (born December 22, 1970) is an American politician, attorney, and political commentator serving as the junior United States senator from Texas since 2013.
Tennessee
Tennessee, officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
Texas
Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.
The Catholic Weekly
The Catholic Weekly is an English language newspaper currently published in Sydney, Australia.
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The Gideons International
Gideons International is an Evangelical Christian association for men founded in 1899 in Janesville, Wisconsin.
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The Journal of Popular Culture
The Journal of Popular Culture (JPC) is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes academic essays on all aspects of popular or mass culture.
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The Navigators (organization)
The Navigators is a worldwide Christian para-church organization based in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine.
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Thirteen Colonies
The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America during the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Thomas Nelson (publisher)
Thomas Nelson is a publishing firm that began in West Bow, Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1798, as the namesake of its founder.
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Toowoomba
Toowoomba (nicknamed 'The Garden City' and 'T-Bar') is a city in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia.
Trans-Pecos
The Trans-Pecos, as originally defined in 1887 by the Texas geologist Robert T. Hill, is the distinct portion of Texas that lies west of the Pecos River.
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Trevecca Nazarene University
Trevecca Nazarene University (TNU) is a private Nazarene liberal arts college in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Tulsa, Oklahoma
Tulsa is the second-most-populous city in the state of Oklahoma, after Oklahoma City, and is the 48th-most-populous city in the United States.
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Tyndale House
Tyndale House (also known by its sister organization Tyndale House Foundation) is a Christian publisher in Carol Stream, Illinois.
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Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukrainska Radianska Sotsialistychna Respublika; Ukrainskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika), abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1991.
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Unchurched Belt
The Unchurched Belt is a region of the US that has low rates of religious participation. Bible Belt and Unchurched Belt are belt regions of the United States and history of religion in the United States.
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Upstate South Carolina
The Upstate, historically known as the Upcountry, is a region of the U.S. state of South Carolina, comprising the northwesternmost area of the state.
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Utah
Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
Vatican City
Vatican City, officially the Vatican City State (Stato della Città del Vaticano; Status Civitatis Vaticanae), is a landlocked sovereign country, city-state, microstate, and enclave within Rome, Italy.
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Vejle
Vejle is a city in Denmark, in the southeast of the Jutland Peninsula at the head of Vejle Fjord, where the Vejle River and Grejs River and their valleys converge.
Veluwe
The Veluwe is a forest-rich ridge of hills (1100 km2; 420 sq. mi.) in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands.
Vendée
Vendée (Vande) is a department in the Pays de la Loire region in Western France, on the Atlantic coast.
Vermont
Vermont is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.
Vilnius
Vilnius, previously known in English as Vilna, is the capital of and largest city in Lithuania and the second-most-populous city in the Baltic states.
Vilnius District Municipality
Vilnius District Municipality (Vilniaus rajono savivaldybė) is one of the 60 municipalities in Lithuania.
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Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.
War in the Vendée
The War in the Vendée (Guerre de Vendée) was a counter-revolution from 1793 to 1796 in the Vendée region of France during the French Revolution.
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Welch College
Welch College, formerly the Free Will Baptist Bible College, is a private Free Will Baptist college in Gallatin, Tennessee.
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West Michigan
West Michigan and Western Michigan are terms for a region in the U.S. state of Michigan's Lower Peninsula.
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West Virginia
West Virginia is a landlocked state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.
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Western Norway
Western Norway (Vestlandet, Vest-Norge; Vest-Noreg) is the region along the Atlantic coast of southern Norway.
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Western United States
The Western United States, also called the American West, the Western States, the Far West, and the West, is the region comprising the westernmost U.S. states.
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Wheaton College (Illinois)
Wheaton College is a private Evangelical Christian liberal arts college in Wheaton, Illinois.
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Wheaton, Illinois
Wheaton is a city in and the county seat of DuPage County, Illinois, United States.
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Wilbur Zelinsky
Wilbur Zelinsky (21 December 1921 – 4 May 2013) was an American cultural geographer.
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Wollondilly Shire
Wollondilly Shire is a periurban local government area, located on the south west fringe of the Greater Sydney area in New South Wales, Australia, parts of which fall into the Macarthur, Blue Mountains and Central Tablelands regions in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
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Word of Faith
Word of Faith is a movement within charismatic Christianity which teaches that Christians can get power and financial prosperity through prayer, and that those who believe in Jesus' death and resurrection have the right to physical health.
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Yale University Press
Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University.
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YMCA
YMCA, sometimes regionally called the Y, is a worldwide youth organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries.
Young Life
Young Life is an evangelical Christian organization based in Colorado Springs, Colorado which focuses on young people in middle school, high school, and college.
Zacatecas
Zacatecas, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Zacatecas (Estado Libre y Soberano de Zacatecas), is one of the 31 states of Mexico.
Zeeland
Zeeland (Zeêland; historical English exonym Zealand) is the westernmost and least populous province of the Netherlands.
2008 Republican Party presidential primaries
From January 3 to June 3, 2008, voters of the Republican Party chose their nominee for president in the 2008 United States presidential election.
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2012 Republican Party presidential primaries
Voters of the Republican Party elected state delegations to the 2012 Republican National Convention in presidential primaries.
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2013 New Zealand census
The 2013 New Zealand census was the thirty-third national census.
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2016 Republican Party presidential primaries
Presidential primaries and caucuses of the Republican Party took place within all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and five U.S. territories between February 1 and June 7, 2016.
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See also
Belt regions of the United States
- Bible Belt
- Black Belt (U.S. region)
- Borscht Belt
- Corn Belt
- Cotton Belt
- Fruit Belt
- Georgia Gold Belt
- Great bison belt
- Insular Belt
- Juneau gold belt
- List of belt regions of the United States
- Pine Belt (Mississippi)
- Pretzel Belt
- Rice Belt
- Rust Belt
- Salt Belt
- Slate Belt
- Snowbelt
- Southeast Missouri Lead District
- Stroke Belt
- Sun Belt
- Unchurched Belt
Bible belts
Christian fundamentalism in the United States
- 1990–1991 Philadelphia measles outbreak
- Army of God (United States)
- Bible Belt
- Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy
- Christian Identity
- Christian terrorism in the United States
- Church of Wells
- Focus on the Family
- Fundamental Broadcasting Network
- God's Choice
- Majesty Music
- Mormon fundamentalism
- Nashville Statement
- National Standards for United States History
- New Testament Christian Churches of America
- Pillar of Fire International
- Teach the Controversy
- The Good Citizen
- The Sword of the Lord
- Unshackled!
- Westboro Baptist Church
Christianity in the United States
- Amazing Facts
- American Christians
- Bible Belt
- Black Catholic Movement
- Black Catholicism
- Chinese American church
- Christian Zionism in the United States
- Christian fundamentalism in the United States
- Christian nationalism in the United States
- Christianity among Hispanic and Latino Americans
- Christianity in the United States
- Church of God of Prophecy
- Gab (social network)
- Hebrew Roots
- History of Christianity in the United States
- It Is Written
- Korean American Presbyterian Church
- Korean Presbyterian Church Abroad
- Kosin Presbyterian Church in Korea
- Malankara Archdiocese of North America
- Purity ball
- Purity ring
- Rediscovering God in America
- The Interchurch Center
- Voice of Prophecy
- Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches
Cultural regions of the United States
- Acadiana
- Appalachia
- Bible Belt
- Black Belt (U.S. region)
- Culture of the Southern United States
- Indian country
- Mormon corridor
- New England
- Pretzel Belt
- Southern United States
- Southwestern United States
Regions of the Southern United States
- Appalachia
- Bible Belt
- Black Belt in the American South
- Boonslick
- Border states (American Civil War)
- Carolinas
- Cherokee Commission
- Cherokee Outlet
- Choctaw Country
- Cotton Belt
- Deep South
- Dixie
- East Coast of the United States
- East South Central states
- East Texas
- Green Country
- Gulf Coastal Plain
- Gullah-Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor
- Kennessee
- Little Dixie (Oklahoma)
- Mid-South (region)
- Old South
- Piedmont Atlantic megaregion
- Rice Belt
- South Atlantic states
- South Central Oklahoma
- Southeastern United States
- Stroke Belt
- Sun Belt
- Texas Hill Country
- Upland South
- Virginias
- West South Central states
Religion in the Southern United States
- Anglican Diocese of the South
- Bible Belt
- Diocese of the Southeast (Reformed Episcopal Church)
- Florida–Georgia District of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod
- History of the Jews in Charleston, South Carolina
- History of the Jews in the Southern United States
- Hoodoo (spirituality)
- Mid-South District of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod
- Old Regular Baptists
- Orthodox Church in America Diocese of the South
- Primitive Baptist Universalist
- Primitive Baptists
- Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America
- Province 4 of the Episcopal Church
- Religion in Alabama
- Religion in Arkansas
- Religion in Florida
- Religion in Georgia (U.S. state)
- Religion in Kentucky
- Religion in Louisiana
- Religion in Maryland
- Religion in Mississippi
- Religion in North Carolina
- Religion in Oklahoma
- Religion in South Carolina
- Religion in Tennessee
- Religion in Texas
- Religion in Virginia
- Religion in West Virginia
- Snake handling in Christianity
- Southeastern District of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod
- Southern Baptist Convention
- Southern District of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod
- The Provincials
- Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists
Social conservatism in the United States
- Anti-abortion movement in the United States
- Anti-pornography movement in the United States
- Bible Belt
- Christian right
- Corporate sociopolitical activism
- Gay agenda
- Judith Reisman
- Opposition to same-sex marriage in the United States
- School prayer in the United States
- Social conservatism in the United States
References
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