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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.
The bulk of the human religious experience pre-dates written history, which is roughly 7,000 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 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 HarperCollins Concise Guide to World Religion: The A-to-Z Encyclopedia of All the Major Religious Traditions (1999) covers 33 principal religions, including Buddhism, Christianity, Jainism, Judaism, Islam, Shinto, Shamanism, Taoism, South American religions, Baltic and Slavic religions, Confucianism, and the religions of Africa and Oceania.
Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America Oxford University Press, 1988 online edition Archived 2012-07-21 at the Wayback Machine; Butler, Jon. Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People. 1990. Butler, Jon, et al. Religion in American Life: A Short History (2011) Dolan, Jay P.
Founded as the American Religion Data Archive in 1997, and online since 1998, [2] the archive was initially targeted at researchers interested in American religion. In February 2006, the American Religion Data Archive became the Association of Religion Data Archives when an international data archive was added. [3] The archive now includes both ...
1972: Sally Priesand became America's first female rabbi ordained by a rabbinical seminary, and the second formally ordained female rabbi in Jewish history, after Regina Jonas. [52] [53] 1973: Emma Sommers Richards became the first Mennonite woman to be ordained as a pastor of a Mennonite congregation (Lombard Mennonite Church in Illinois). [54 ...
Religion and politics in the United States presidential campaign, 2008; Religion of Black Americans; Religion in United States prisons; Religious affiliation in the United States House of Representatives; Religious affiliation in the United States Senate; Religious affiliations of presidents of the United States; A Religious History of the ...