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McLoughlin, William G. Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform: An Essay on Religion and Social Change in America, 1607-1977 (1978) excerpt and text search. Mouw, Richard J., and Mark A. Noll. Wonderful Words of Life: Hymns in American Protestant History and Theology, (2004) excerpt and text search; Noll, Mark A. American Evangelical Christianity: An ...
The Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States has received favorable comments from Robert Wuthnow, [3] Leigh E. Schmidt and Edward C. Mallinckrodt, [3] Gary Laderman and Goodrich C. White, [3] Laurie Maffly-Kipp and John C. Danforth, [3] Anglican & Episcopal History, George Marsden, [4] Christianity Today, [4] Booklist, [4] and Library ...
The majority of Christian Americans are Protestant Christians (140 million; 44%), though there are also significant numbers of American Roman Catholics (70 million; 22%) and other Christian denominations such as Latter Day Saints, Eastern Orthodox Christians, Oriental Orthodox Christians, and Jehovah's Witnesses (about 13 million in total; 4%). [2]
Additional conditions for making perpetual profession are a minimum age of 21 years and the completion of at least three years of temporary profession. [6] Religious profession is often associated with the granting of a religious habit, which the newly professed receives from the superior of the institute or from the bishop. Acceptance of the ...
Many scholars have adopted historian David Bebbington's definition of evangelicalism. According to Bebbington, evangelicalism has four major characteristics. These are conversionism (an emphasis on the new birth), biblicism (an emphasis on the Bible as the supreme religious authority), activism (an emphasis on individual engagement in spreading the gospel), and crucicentrism (an emphasis on ...
Critics argue that many of these Christian founders actually supported the separation of church and state and would not support the notion that they were trying to found a Christian nation. [170] [171] [172] In Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, a Supreme Court decision in 1892, Justice David Josiah Brewer wrote that America was "a ...
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A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada (2nd updated ed.). Grand Rapids, Mi: Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. ISBN 978-0-8028-7490-0. Urban, Hugh B. (2015). New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements: Alternative Spirituality in Contemporary America. Berkeley, Ca: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-28117-2