World Religions

Introduction to World Religions Study Guide In the Midwest and upstate New York, mid-century (19 th ) camp meetings were held. American Millennialism and Adventism, which arose from Evangelical Protestantism, influenced the Jehovah’s Witnesses movement, with 7 million followers and a reaction specifically to William Miller, credited to have started the religious movement known as the Millerites. The Millerites predicted a second coming of the prophecy (Jesus Christ) in the 1840s, and as history has shown, this did not happen. However, as a result of William Miller’s prophecy, a new sector of Christianity emerged, the Seventh-Day Adventists. Cultural Christian “Cultural Christian” is a broad term for people who may not believe in the religious claims of Christianity, but who retain an affinity for the culture, art, music related to it. Those who like to celebrate Christmas and Easter, but do not attach religious significance to it could be cultural Christians.

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