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Category: Protestantism in Texas. ... Texas District of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod This page was last edited on 7 May 2014, at 00:39 (UTC). Text is ...
Other estimates suggest that 48.5% of the U.S. population (or 157 million people) is Protestant. [2] Simultaneously, this corresponds to around 20% of the world's total Protestant population. The U.S. contains the largest Protestant population of any country in the world. Baptists comprise about one-third
Protestantism also spread into France, where the Protestants came to be known as "Huguenots." St. Bartholomew's Day massacre 1572, Painting by François Dubois (1529–1584) Though not personally interested in religious reform, Francis I (reigned 1515–1547) initially maintained an attitude of tolerance, in accordance with his interest in the ...
A history of the Protestant Episcopal Church (1964) Balmer, Randall. Protestantism in America (2005) Brekus, Catherine A. Strangers & Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845 U of North Carolina Press, 1998 online edition Archived 2011-01-12 at the Wayback Machine; Bonomi, Patricia U.
America began as a significant Protestant majority nation. Significant minorities of Roman Catholics and Jews did not arise until the period between 1880 and 1910. Altogether, Protestants comprised the majority of the population until 2012 when the Protestant share of U.S. population dropped to 48%, thus ending its status as religion of the ...
[6] According to the Pew Research Center and D Magazine, Houston is the third-most religious and Christian area by percentage of population in the United States, and second in Texas behind the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. [7] [8] The metropolitan area of Houston's Christian community is dominated by Protestantism and Roman Catholicism.
The name "Bible Belt" has been applied historically to the South and parts of the Midwest, but is more commonly identified with the South. [6] It encompasses both the Deep South (South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and most of Louisiana) and the Upland South (North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Arkansas, and Oklahoma).