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The term Bible Belt refers to a region of the Southern United States and the Midwestern state of Missouri (which also has significant Southern influence), where Protestantism exerts a strong social and cultural influence. The region has been described as one of the most socially conservative across the United States due to a significant impact ...
The Bible Belt (Dutch: bijbelgordel, biblebelt) is a strip of land in the Netherlands with the highest concentration of conservative orthodox Reformed Protestants in the country. Although the term is of recent origin (named by analogy after the Bible Belt of the United States) the Dutch Bible Belt has existed for many generations.
The Bible Belt (De Bijbelgordel in Dutch) is the name given to a strip of land in the Netherlands, after the Bible Belt of the United States. The belt is inhabited by a large number of conservative Protestants. The Bible Belt stretches from Zeeland, through the West-Betuwe and Veluwe, to the northern parts of the province Overijssel. However ...
Fruit Belt, an area where fruit growing is prominent, specially oranges at the state of Florida and grapes at California. Indiana Gas Belt, a region of Indiana that was the site of a natural gas boom in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Jell-O Belt, also known as the Mormon corridor or Mormon belt, western states with a large Mormon ...
The Unchurched Belt is a region of the US that has low rates of religious participation. The term derives from Bible Belt and the idea of the unchurched. The belt was originally found in the West and Northwestern United States, but has moved over the decades. The term was first applied to the West Coast of the United States in 1985 by Rodney ...
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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. [1] Typically, the definition covers Western Norway (Vestlandet) and Southern Norway (Sørlandet), which includes the counties of Rogaland (typically called the ...
The Swedish Bible Belt ( Swedish: bibelbältet) is a region centered on Jönköping in northern Småland where demographics show that people are characteristically more religious. [1] In the Bible Belt the free churches are relatively popular in comparison to the Church of Sweden. [1] Of the Småland counties, Jönköping is characterised by ...