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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.
[6] [7] Others stress the secular character of the American Revolution and note the secular character of the nation's founding documents. [citation needed] Protestantism in the United States, as the largest and dominant form of religion in the country, has been profoundly influential to the history and culture of the United States.
The Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, was the first law in North America requiring religious tolerance for Christians. It was passed on April 21, 1649, by the assembly of the Maryland colony , in St. Mary's City in St. Mary's County, Maryland.
The American Revolution was the main source of the civil religion that has shaped patriotism ever since. According to the sociologist Robert Bellah: Behind the civil religion at every point lie biblical archetypes: Exodus, Chosen People, Promised Land, New Jerusalem, and Sacrificial Death and Rebirth.
The American Enlightenment was a critical precursor of the American Revolution. Chief among the ideas of the American Enlightenment were the concepts of natural law, natural rights, consent of the governed, individualism, property rights, self-ownership, self-determination, liberalism, republicanism, and defense against corruption.
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.
[2]: 370–374 For the volume on United States history during what was popularly called the "Age of Jackson", Woodward and Hofstadter chose between William W. Freehling and Charles Grier Sellers; Hofstadter considered Sellers's prose inadequate, so the coeditors initially appointed Freehling to the task, but after Kenneth M. Stampp—initially ...
In the eighteenth century, biblical criticism was created, challenging literal interpretations of the Bible. Parts of Christianity influenced the American Revolution, worked for societal reforms, and formed an important part of the ideology of Abolitionism which shut down the Atlantic slave trade.