Analysis: My Experience At VOX And The Methodist Easter Sunday Service
Hadiya J. Malone
Professor Laurel Holland
Sociology 1101
22 April 2014
My experience at VOX and The Methodist Easter Sunday Service
For my cultural event, I attended the Oak Grove United Methodist Church Café VOX meeting and Easter Sunday service. The church service took place in the main “Sanctuary” hall at Oak Grove United Methodist Church in Decatur, Georgia. Café VOX also takes place at the church in a coffee house-style setting just before the church service. Easter Sunday is an extremely important event in Christian religion, as it is a celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And Easter Sunday service is a popular tradition among Methodist churches worldwide. According to the church’s website, Oak Grove United …show more content…
Religiosity, religious affiliation, and the Micro- A macrosociology link that connects religion to society were three ideas that popped into my head when I thought of my experiences this Sunday at Oak Grove United Methodist Church. When I attended the VOX meeting, I honestly didn’t have a tremendous feeling of awkwardness. The participants were all in my age group, and when they performed their poetry, skits, etc., I could feel a sense of fellowship with them. According to Kenda Dean in her book Almost Christian, “Teenagers demonstrate an openness to religion, but few of them are deeply committed to one.” (Dean), which is …show more content…
It showed me that even though we were old enough to make our own decisions we showed a devotion to our religion based on the teachings of our parents. Most of the teens at the VOX event showed a great deal of religiosity which made me feel a little left out because I do not attend church as often as they do. Which comes to the ideas of extrinsic religiosity and Intrinsic Religiosity. I would consider myself more intrinsically religious than the peers that I met at the VOX event when it comes to the Christian faith. The only obvious difference among us was that I was the only African American in a room full of about 30 teens, but I was okay with that because we shared some common threads: age and voice. However, as soon as I went out into a larger area with a larger population of older and younger Caucasian males and females, I began to feel out of place. I remember even telling my mom that I didn’t want to stay at all because I was uncomfortable. I didn’t feel any sort of Ethnocentrism, and I was proud of that. And even though I felt awkward, I actually enjoyed some aspects of the ceremony. For example, the reverend was female, and I have never witnessed that at any of the places of worship that I have attended. In fact, I even read in my textbook that “From a conflict perspective, the doctrines of the three major monotheistic
Professor Laurel Holland
Sociology 1101
22 April 2014
My experience at VOX and The Methodist Easter Sunday Service
For my cultural event, I attended the Oak Grove United Methodist Church Café VOX meeting and Easter Sunday service. The church service took place in the main “Sanctuary” hall at Oak Grove United Methodist Church in Decatur, Georgia. Café VOX also takes place at the church in a coffee house-style setting just before the church service. Easter Sunday is an extremely important event in Christian religion, as it is a celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And Easter Sunday service is a popular tradition among Methodist churches worldwide. According to the church’s website, Oak Grove United …show more content…
Religiosity, religious affiliation, and the Micro- A macrosociology link that connects religion to society were three ideas that popped into my head when I thought of my experiences this Sunday at Oak Grove United Methodist Church. When I attended the VOX meeting, I honestly didn’t have a tremendous feeling of awkwardness. The participants were all in my age group, and when they performed their poetry, skits, etc., I could feel a sense of fellowship with them. According to Kenda Dean in her book Almost Christian, “Teenagers demonstrate an openness to religion, but few of them are deeply committed to one.” (Dean), which is …show more content…
It showed me that even though we were old enough to make our own decisions we showed a devotion to our religion based on the teachings of our parents. Most of the teens at the VOX event showed a great deal of religiosity which made me feel a little left out because I do not attend church as often as they do. Which comes to the ideas of extrinsic religiosity and Intrinsic Religiosity. I would consider myself more intrinsically religious than the peers that I met at the VOX event when it comes to the Christian faith. The only obvious difference among us was that I was the only African American in a room full of about 30 teens, but I was okay with that because we shared some common threads: age and voice. However, as soon as I went out into a larger area with a larger population of older and younger Caucasian males and females, I began to feel out of place. I remember even telling my mom that I didn’t want to stay at all because I was uncomfortable. I didn’t feel any sort of Ethnocentrism, and I was proud of that. And even though I felt awkward, I actually enjoyed some aspects of the ceremony. For example, the reverend was female, and I have never witnessed that at any of the places of worship that I have attended. In fact, I even read in my textbook that “From a conflict perspective, the doctrines of the three major monotheistic