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Historians debate how much influence religion, specifically Christianity and more specifically Protestantism, had on the American Revolution. [1] Many of the Founding Fathers were active in a local Protestant church; some of them had deist sentiments, such as Thomas Jefferson , Benjamin Franklin , and George Washington .
Soon after, early American converts began embracing the new religion. Thornton Chase was the first American Baháʼí, dating from 1894. [ 154 ] One of the first Baháʼí institutions in the US was established in Chicago to facilitate the establishment of the first Baháʼí House of Worship in the West, which was eventually built in Wilmette ...
Native American Church, 1800 (19th century) [5] Reformed Mennonites, 1812; Restoration Movement, 1800s; various subgroups of Amish, throughout 19th and 20th centuries; American Unitarian Association, 1825 Unitarian Universalism, 1961 (consolidation of the Universalist Church and the AUA) Latter Day Saint movement/Mormonism, 1830
God Is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith Is Changing the World is a 2009 book by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge which argues against the secularization thesis and claims that there is a global revival of faith has started in the late twentieth century.
In 1619, the Church of England was formally established as the official religion in the colony, and would remain so until it was disestablished shortly after the American Revolution. [4] Establishment meant that local tax funds paid the parish costs, and that the parish had local civic functions such as poor relief.
In the wake of the Revolution, American Episcopalians faced the task of preserving a hierarchical church structure in a society infused with republican values. Episcopacy continued to be feared after the Revolution and caused division between the low church, anti-bishop South and the high church, pro-bishop New England. [13]
Barratt's Chapel, built in 1780, is the second oldest Methodist Church in the United States built for that purpose.The church was a meeting place of Asbury and Coke.. The history of Methodism in the United States dates back to the mid-18th century with the ministries of early Methodist preachers such as Laurence Coughlan and Robert Strawbridge.
The idea of restoring a "primitive" form of Christianity grew in popularity in the U.S. after the American Revolution. [30]: 89–94 This desire to restore a purer form of Christianity without an elaborate hierarchy contributed to the development of many groups during the Second Great Awakening, including the Latter Day Saints and Shakers.