Eric
Potts II
HUMN240-H4WW
J.
Poston
My popular culture
topic is religion, so many of us throughout history have built a foundation in
our lives of what we believe in which makes us who we are. Most Americans today
believe in some sort of religion, living life and making decisions based on the
dogma and abiding by the laws of their beliefs. Every religion has its own
rituals to worship and praise. Many religions use the ritual of meditation for
praising and connecting to their supernatural entity. In my past and present I
have studied on a couple different religions, the one that is the most familiar
to me is Christianity. Believers of Christianity are called Christians.
Christians have many different rituals, attending a praise and worship service
every Sunday of each week, blessing their food before they eat, and dressing in
casual clothing when they attend their weekly service. These types of rituals
have been going on for centuries with the Christians, and being taught and
passed on from generation to generation.
Religious
people separate themselves from other religions and non-religious people by
what they believe. I am not indicating that believers of different religions
and non believers of religions can’t coincide, but to simplify my statement I
am implying that religions form cultures by what they believe. Since they are
different in many ways people have the tendencies to form stereotypes about
them. Some widely known stereotypes about the Christians is they think other
religions are wrong for what they believe, and people think they are
hypocritical. When in fact whoever is formulating a stereotype about any group,
becomes the person who is wrong because no one person has the authority to
judge an individual by the group their apart of.
With
applying these theories to the popular culture I chose (religion), I have grown
to learn the importance of not being so stereotypical of people because of what
group they are apart of. The rituals in religions and the stereotypes about
religions are very important to each religion, since all religions are
continuously trying to build their community and grow. So the perception of
religious people from outsiders affects the religions ways of advertisement to
reaching out to the masses.
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