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The Democratization of American Christianity (1989). excerpt and text search; Johnson, Paul, ed. African-American Christianity: Essays in History, (1994) complete text online free; Keller, Rosemary Skinner, and Rosemary Radford Ruether, eds. Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America (3 vol 2006)
The Faiths of the Founding Fathers is a book by historian of American religion David L. Holmes from the College of William & Mary. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9 ...
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 ...
In the first quarter of the twenty-first century, most Christians live outside North America and Western Europe. White Christians are a global minority, and slightly over half of worldwide Christians are female. [605] [606] It is the world's largest religion with roughly 2.4 billion followers constituting around 31.2% of the world's population.
At the time of the American revolution, many branches of Christians, including Baptists, Anglicans and Presbyterians, were represented in the United States. If the Founding Fathers had decided to ...
The book asserts that the United States prospered because it was established upon universal natural law principles that had been passed down from common law and traditional Judeo-Christian morality, as many of the Founding Fathers had been guided by the Bible, among others. Thus, the book asserts that the U.S. Constitution incorporates ...
Sadly, the days of a homogenous “Christian” culture are long past. Let Christians put Bibles in classrooms, and you can be sure that Muslims and other faiths will demand equal treatment.
Rediscovering God in America was produced in 2008, with Newt and Callista Gingrich narrating [12] as the book illustrates the importance of "our Creator" to America's founders and their successors. Based on the New York Times bestseller, Rediscovering God in America , this documentary seeks to remind viewers that the United States is indeed ...