Socialization Of Christianity

Moreover, the media also influences our identities by creating stereotypes. Taking back to the television show 'The Simpsons', for example. Homer, the father, is stupid, lazy and fat. Marge, the wife, is always nagging him to do work. Lisa, the smart one, is unpopular at school, unlike her mischievous brother Bart, who gets to hang with the cool kids, who are all bullies. Because people see these stereotypes, they begin to make generalizations about other people. People also fall into these stereotypes because it is what society expects of them. These stereotypes created by the media take away our individualism and instead provide us with a common identity which to most of us seems to be the same.

I believe todays media is controlled by the wealthy liberal minority, Examples of some include television, major internet sites such as Yahoo and AOL. These wealthy liberal minority’s use the media to impose their beliefs by airing programs that can influence perception. Think about it-show enough interracial couples, air enough Police brutality directed at one particular group, give only one side to a point of view and the outcome becomes brainwashing to a certain degree. The perception becomes acceptable behavior, thus the norm. Whoever said, “repeat a lie often enough and people will believe it” hit the nail on the head because it’s essentially true. Controlling what media viewers see and hear is basically re-programming us how to think

     The media provides the public political issues, which sets the agenda for political discussion. In theory the media tries to attune themselves to the interest of the public, but “in most instances the media severs as conduits for agenda-setting efforts by competing groups and forces” (Ginsberg, Lowi & Weir, 1999, p. 298). To gain public support, groups and forces need media coverage to promote their ideas. However, the media has great control over which issues they televise. The issues must have media appeal or be considered newsworthy.

It is believed that the media has a huge influence on the opinions of others. This can also be evident when looking at religions in the media. To understand how religious stereotyping happens in the media, it must be first observed as to why they occur in the first place. One of the main reasons for this daily occurrence is the fact that media uses lack of research. It should always be expected to find inappropriate content that is edited inaccurately. It can also be found that those who contribute to the media may have little to no background with religion. Furthermore, tools like the Internet are used by millions across the world everyday. This allows people to communicate their own interpretations of events. The problem is that these people

A couple decades after Jesus, the Christian Messiah, died , there came a new religion ,which was appealing because it was one of the first religions to show life after death. This religion was Catholicism. This religion has overcame many obstacles to come at where it is today. Catholicism , the largest self-religion branch in christianity, can be explained through the History of Catholicism, the faith of Catholicism, and the structure of the mass and church.

The mainstream media consistently portrays the Biblically valued traits of humility and submissiveness as negative.

Christianity is one of the most influential religions on both ancient and modern Western society, with the religion based on the teachings of the prophet Jesus Christ who lived approximately between the years of 5 BC and 33 AD. It is claimed that Christ was the son of God whose spirit was embodied and sent to Earth as a human being to bring peace and prosperity to the less fortunate, and absolve the world of its sin. Jesus preached a doctrine of a supreme monotheistic god who ruled over the universe, as well as ethics and morals especially centred on the concept of faith and forgiveness. If one was to live their life in accordance to the Will of God and the teachings of Christ found in the written word of the Holy Bible, one would be absolved of their sin and ascend to the spiritual realm of God, known as Heaven, after their physical death.

The social landscape of the U.S. may naturally be an organic development. Society develops as areas of influence rise and fall over time. Frequently these areas of influence are internal, but at times they also are external. This is especially true as society becomes more aware of international developments and an economy becomes increasingly global, or a society engages activities not originally held as part of the original society. However, there are other parts of society that may hold deeper influence, such as religion, political activities, and family structures. These areas also influence each other, and in different ways depending on the society and time in history. In other words, society can be defined by those that are part of it.

There is a great disconnection between the Christian community and the mentally ill. The disconnection is shown in the way that the mentally ill is over looked or ignored. In some situations, some people believe the mentally ill have a type of disease that can be transmitted to them by simply being around the mentally ill person too often or being involved in the lives of the mentally ill person on a continual basis. Do people really believe that somehow they can become affected mentally by dealing with or living with people that have mental health issues? Some people feel that all mentally ill people are different and act so different that they don’t want to get the mentally ill person started with their allusions and strange reactions because they are just crazy and there is nothing that can be done by Christians to help them but to pray for them. People do not want to deal with anything that is different from them or deal with something or someone that they do not understand. People do not want to deal with new challenges or things that are different and or things that they do not

Pastor Pack thanks for coming and allowing me to help answer your concerns. Personally I agree that psychology can be integrated with Christianity. I don’t agree with Adams’ quote because we all live in a falling world and Jesus came to show us the way in how to live by giving us guidelines in the Bible. Integration is important with psychology because it is necessary to explain aspects of human beings that we can’t obtain from the Bible. Entwistle states “ Integration of psychology and Christianity is a multifaceted attempt to discern the underlying truths about the nature and functioning of human beings from the unique vantage points of psychology” (Entwistle, 2010, p. 218). There are many different ways to look at integration but the applied

All around the world people have different clubs, groups and different organizations that there a part of that can make them who they are. The subculture that I decided to write about is Christianity. The main focus of this ethnography is to show people what Christianity is and to learn about the culture. Some characteristics of Christianity are faithfulness, kind, peace, honest, generous and loving. On Sunday March 6, 2016 I had the pleasure of interviewing someone from New Spirit Revival church she doesn’t have a role or position because she just joined a month ago, but she was thinking about joining choir, besides going to church every Sunday she has a husband and one child and she’s also a kindergarten teacher at Oliver hazard Perry elementary

Christianity (my interpretation) is a path in which humans embark on to reach heaven. This may not be what others believe but for me (a non christian) this is what I think.

What stood out to me in this chapter was the fact that socialization has a major role in how we interact with those around us but most importantly was when it talked about religion. What caught my eye was that religion has a significant importance on the way that we interact in our society due to the fact that our primary caregivers. The way that we see the world having is accepted by our caregivers because we are raised and taught at a young age the customs of they believe is the right way and that everyone else is wrong. I agree what what is being said because whatever we a taught or learn throughout our lifespan, we take all of that inconsideration and eventually start to apply it in our daily lives. Those that grow up in religion behave a certain way because the customs and norms that they have. They prohibit a lot of things and see the world differently compared to those that do not

The rise of Christianity started out in a constant battle between the traditional Romans and those who practiced Christianity. The traditional Romans were extremely hostile towards those who were not taking the usual religions and beliefs. In return, many Christians were killed due to their indifferences. Although Christianity had a rough start during the rise, it began to spread rapidly across Europe.

Christianity was born and flourished in an empire where the common language was Latin and Greek. Two important people like Paul and Constantine further influenced and were a major part of the development of Christianity. The history of the Jews leading up to the time of Jesus had a major impact on the development of Christianity. “When Christianity was clearly identified as a distant religion, the new religion was considered by its members to be the fulfillment of Judaism rather than a new religion.” “Since Jesus was a Jew and preached to the Jews, Christianity was closely linked to Judaism.” The development of Christianity was due to several historical, political, and social circumstances.