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The History of Religion in the U.S. is a complex story involving churches from Europe and Asia, as well as churches created in the U.S.
The '''History of Religion in the U.S.''' is a complex story involving churches from Europe and Asia and influences from Africa, as well as new churches created in the U.S.A.
 
==Colonial Era==
==Colonial Era==
===Arrivals from Europe===
===Arrivals from Europe===
See [[Quakers]]
===First Great Awakening===
===First Great Awakening===
see [[First Great Awakening]]
* [[First Great Awakening]]
* [[Quakers]]
==Early National==
==Early National==
see [[Second Great Awakening]]
see [[Second Great Awakening]]
===Frontier denominations created===
===Frontier denominations created===
====Mormons====
====Mormons====
==1850-1920==
==1840-1920==
see [[Third Great Awakening]]
* [[Methodist Church, South]]
* [[Third Great Awakening]]
* [[Social Gospel]]
* [[Josiah Strong]]
* [[Quakers]]
* [[Conservative Judaism]]
* [[Orthodox Judaism]]
[[Image:-catholic1850.JPG|thumb|300px|Distribution of Catholics, 1850]]
[[Image:-catholic1850.JPG|thumb|300px|Distribution of Catholics, 1850]]


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see  
* [[Fourth Great Awakening]]
* [[Fourth Great Awakening]]
* [[The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism (book by Robert William Fogel)]]
* [[Church of Scientology]]
 
* [[Conservative Judaism]]
==Bibliography==
* [[Orthodox Judaism]]
* Ahlstrom, Sydney E. ''A Religious History of the American People'' (1972)  the standard history
   
* Brekus, Catherine A. ''Strangers & Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845'' U of North Carolina Press, 1998 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=94846682 online edition]
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* Bonomi, Patricia U. ''Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America'' Oxford University Press, 1988  [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=90445659 online edition]
* Butler, Jon. ''Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People.'' 1990.
* Hatch, Nathan O. ''The Democratization of American Christianity'' 1989.
* Isaac, Rhys. ''The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790'' (1982), emphasis on Baptists
* McLoughlin, William G. ''Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform: An Essay on Religion and Social Change in America, 1607-1977'' 1978.
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The History of Religion in the U.S. is a complex story involving churches from Europe and Asia and influences from Africa, as well as new churches created in the U.S.A.

Colonial Era

Arrivals from Europe

See Quakers

First Great Awakening

Early National

see Second Great Awakening

Frontier denominations created

Mormons

1840-1920

Distribution of Catholics, 1850
Distribution of Methodists, 1850
Distribution of Lutherans, 1850
Distribution of Episcopalians, 1850
Distribution of Congregationalists, 1850
Distribution of Presbyterians, 1850

1920-1960

1960-present

see

====notes====

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