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Religious influence on reform movements is key to What Hath God Wrought's interpretation of the era. Howe grounds the Whigs' optimistic culture of self- and societal-improvement in postmillennial Christian thought and notes the overlap between the Second Great Awakening and the reform impulse. [ 23 ]
The Second Great Awakening exercised a profound impact on American religious history. By 1859 evangelicalism emerged as a kind of national church or national religion and was the grand absorbing theme of American religious life. The greatest gains were made by the very well organized Methodists.
Religion and American Culture is a biannual academic journal published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture (Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis). The journal was established in 1991 and covers the nature, terms, and dynamics of religion in America, and the ...
A Religious History of the American People (1st edition 1972, 2nd edition 2004) is a book by Sydney E. Ahlstrom and published by Yale University Press. [1] The first edition was 1,158 pages in length, the second 1,192.
Throughout its history, religious involvement among American citizens has grown since 1776 from 17% of the US population to 62% in 2000. [37] Approximately 35-40 percent of Americans regularly attended religious services from eighteenth-century colonial America up to 1940. [17] That influence continues in American culture, social life, and ...
Developments in the culture of the United States in modern history have often been followed by similar changes in the rest of the world (American cultural imperialism). This includes knowledge, customs, and arts of Americans, as well as events in the social, cultural, and political spheres.
He argued that in effect there is an American civil religion which is a nonsectarian faith with sacred symbols drawn from national history. Scholars have portrayed it as a cohesive force, a common set of values that foster social and cultural integration.
Religion has been a major influence on art, culture, philosophy and law of the continent. Between them, the United States, Mexico and Canada account for 85 percent of the population of North America. Religion in each of these countries is dominated by Christianity (77.4), [2] [3] making it the largest religious group in North America.