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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 ...
Lippy, Charles H., ed. Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience (3 vol. 1988) MacCulloch, Diarmaid. Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (2011) MacCulloch, Diarmaid. The Reformation (2005) excerpt; McLeod, Hugh and Werner Ustorf, eds. The Decline of Christendom in Western Europe, 1750–2000 (Cambridge UP, 2004) online ...
In that year, most southern congregations left to form a new Southern Baptist Convention, which is now the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., with 13.2 million members as of 2023. [9] The remaining members organized what is now American Baptist Churches USA and includes 1.1 million members and 5,057 congregations.
Many of the British North American colonies that eventually formed the United States of America were settled in the 17th century by men and women, who, in the face of European religious persecution, refused to compromise passionately held religious convictions (largely stemming from the Protestant Reformation which began c. 1517) and fled Europe.
The Protestant religion was quite strong in the North in the 1860s. The Protestant denominations took a variety of positions. In general, the pietistic or evangelical denominations such as the Methodists, Northern Baptists and Congregationalists strongly supported the war effort.
1939 Southern and Northern US branches of the Methodist Episcopal Church, along with the Methodist Protestant Church, reunite to form The Methodist Church (slavery had divided the church in the 19th century) 1940 Monumento Nacional de Santa Cruz del Valle de los Caidos, world's largest cross, 152.4 meters high
1814 – First recorded baptism of a mainland Chinese Protestant convert, Cai Gao; [218] American Baptist Foreign Mission Society formed; [202] [219] Netherlands Bible Society founded [210] Samuel Marsden officiated at the first service on Christmas Day to begin the Church Missionary Society work in New Zealand.
The history of Christianity in the early modern period coincides with the Age of Exploration, and is usually taken to begin with the Protestant Reformation c. 1517–1525 (usually rounded down to 1500) and ending in the late 18th century with the onset of the Industrial Revolution and the events leading up to the French Revolution of 1789.