History Department      

History/Religion 345 – RELIGION IN AMERICA – September 23, 2005  

RELIGION IN AMERICA:

A preliminary overview  

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1783 - 1800

THE NEW REPUBLIC

  • Church Religion & Civil Religion
  • Disestablishment
  • Denominationalism

 

1775 - 1783

REVOLUTION!

  • Religious roots of the Revolution?

 

c. 1740s

THE GREAT AWAKENING

  • & New ways of being Christian

1607 - 1783

COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT

  • 13 quite different colonies
  • New England – Middle Colonies – South
  • Enslaved & Free Africans
  • Jewish colonists
  • Germans, Swedes, Dutch

1600s

ENGLISH SETTLEMENTS

  • Anglican Church
  • Fights WITHIN the Anglican Church
  • “PURITANS”

1500s & 1600s

CATHOLIC MISSIONARIES

  • Spanish Missionaries
  • French Missionaries

1500s

PROTESTANT/ CATHOLIC REFORMATIONS IN EUROPE

  • 1517: Luther
  • 1517-1648: “Age of Religious Wars”

15,000 b.c.? – 1800s 

NATIVE AMERICAN TRADITIONS

 

 

 

 

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