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The percentage of Catholics in the United States increased from 1948 all the way to the 1980s, but then began declining again. The percentage of Jews in the United States has decreased from 4% to 2% during this same time period. There has been very little Jewish immigration to the US after 1948 in comparison to previous years.
The Blackwell Companion to Religion in America. Malden, Ma; Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-6936-3. (43 essays by scholars) Hall, D. D. (2019). The Puritans: A transatlantic history. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Koester, Nancy (2007). Fortress Introduction to the History of Christianity in the United States. Minneapolis ...
The bulk of the human religious experience pre-dates written history, which is roughly 70,000 years old. [1] A lack of written records results in most of the knowledge of pre-historic religion being derived from archaeological records and other indirect sources, and from suppositions. Much pre-historic religion is subject to continued debate.
The Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) has made annual estimates about religious adherence in the United States every year since 2013, and they most recently updated their data in 2020. Their data can be broken down to the state level, and data has also been made available of several large metro areas.
Timelines of Muslim history (22 P) T. Timelines of Hinduism (2 P) Pages in category "Religion timelines" ... Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States;
In addition to archived survey data, the ARDA also provides information regarding the religious composition of, and the state of religious freedom in, the 232 nations currently recognized by the United States State Department; [10] membership and distributional data and historical lineages ("Family Trees") of major world religions and U.S ...
A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam (1994) excerpt and text search; Armstrong, Karen. Islam: A Short History (2002) excerpt and text search; Bowker, John Westerdale, ed. The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2007) excerpt and text search 1126pp; Carus, Paul.
The United States has more Christians than any other country in the world (US is the largest Christian nation in respect to population). [7] Going forward from its foundation, the United States has been called a Protestant nation by a variety of sources.