SOC377 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Broken Vessels, Rachel Held Evans, Evangelical Environmentalism
6 Dec 2016
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Left a faith and not picked up another one. Often now referred to as post-christian (canada, us) Typically less liturgically based than mainline protestant, catholic or orthodox christians. Estimated 285 million worldwide. (includes: baptists, most methodists, pentacostals, some lutheran denominations). Poorly defined and therefore hard to define at times. Closely resemble roman catholicism in some practices and organizational structures (bishops, Catholics: can be from a number of different rites (byzantine, latin, maronite etc ). In communion with the pope (bishop of rome). Highly structured and defined hierarchy (pope, cardinals, bishops, priests, deacons, Orthodox: typically from parts of the former byzantine empire"s zone of influence. Can include people who are believers, but do not identify with a particular confession and agnostic and atheists. On the 2001 census 72% of canadians self-identified as christian; About 12% of canadians or approximately 4 million people are evangelical. There are approximately 24,000 churches, or congregations, in canada, about 11,000 of which are evangelical.
