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Robert T. Handy identifies a religious depression in the United States starting around 1925 that only grew worse during the economic depression which began in 1929. The identification of Protestantism with American culture undermined religious messages. The fundamentalist churches over-expanded and were financially troubled.
Mount Sinai Holy Church of America, 1924; Church of Universal Triumph, Dominion of God, 1944; Black theology, 1966; 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
Lippy, Charles H., ed. Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience (3 vol. 1988) Lynch, John. New Worlds: A Religious History of Latin America (2012) McLeod, Hugh, ed. European Religion in the Age of Great Cities 1830–1930 (1995) Noll, Mark A. A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada (1992) Rosman, Doreen.
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 outpouring of religious fervor and revival began in Kentucky and Tennessee in the 1790s and early 1800s among the Presbyterians, Methodists, and Baptists. New religious movements emerged during the Second Great Awakening, such as Adventism , Dispensationalism , and the Latter Day Saint movement .
WASPs have dominated American society, culture, and politics for most of the history of the United States. Critics have disparaged them as " The Establishment ". [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Although the social influence of wealthy WASPs has declined since the 1960s, [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] the group continues to play a central role in American finance, politics, and ...
The building of an American Catholic Church: the episcopacy of John Carroll (Routledge, 2017). Coburn, Carol K. and Martha Smith. Spirited Lives: How Nuns Shaped Catholic Culture and American Life, 1836-1920 (1999) pp 129–58 excerpt and text search
"Civil Religion in Early America," Fides et Historia, Summer 1975, 8#1 pp 20–40, covers 1800–1900 Pierard, Richard V. and Robert D. Linder, "The President and Civil Religion," in Encyclopedia of the American Presidency ed. by Leonard W. Levy and Louis Fisher, (1994), I: 203–206.