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Since the late 19th century, some right-wing Christians have argued that the United States of America is essentially Christian in origin. They preach American exceptionalism, oppose liberal scholars, and emphasize the Christian identity of many Founding Fathers. Critics argue that many of these Christian founders actually supported the ...
Universalist Church of America (1793). Longhouse Religion (1797) [5] 19th century. Black church, 1790s-onward
Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America Oxford University Press, 1988 online edition Archived 2012-07-21 at the Wayback Machine; Butler, Jon. Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People. 1990. Butler, Jon, et al. Religion in American Life: A Short History (2011) Dolan, Jay P.
Its origin can be traced to the group "Om Mandali", founded by Lekhraj Kripalani (1884–1969). 1939 – 1945: Millions of Jews were relocated and murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust . 1947: Pakistan , the first nation-state in the name of Islam was created.
The family tree of American Presbyterianism, 1706–1983. Courtesy of the Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA, and updated. Presbyterianism has had a presence in the United States since colonial times and has exerted an important influence over broader American religion and culture.
San Miguel Mission, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, established in 1610, is the oldest church in the United States.. The Catholic Church in the United States began in the colonial era, but by the mid-1800s, most of the Spanish, French, and Mexican influences had demographically faded in importance, with Protestant Americans moving west and taking over many formerly Catholic regions.
[4] [5] Sacred texts like the Bible, the Quran, and others did not have a word or even a concept of religion in the original languages and neither did the people or the cultures in which these sacred texts were written. [6] [7] The word religion as used in the 21st century does not have an obvious pre-colonial translation into non-European ...
Religion and the American Civil War (1998) excerpt and text search; complete edition online; Queen, Edsward, ed. Encyclopedia of American Religious History (3rd ed. 3 vol 2009) Raboteau, Albert. Slave Religion: The "invisible Institution' in the Antebellum South, (1979) Richey, Russell E. et al. eds. United Methodism and American Culture.