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The part played by religion in the shaping of the American mind, while sometimes overstated, remains crucial. Over the first century and a half of colonial life, the strong religious impulses present in the original settlements—particularly those in New England—were somewhat secularized and democratized but kept much of their original power.
Native American “religion” may be a misnomer for many traditionally oriented Native Americans, as well as for some academic scholars. Native Americans frequently associate religion with a rigidly organized orthodoxy and orthopraxy anchored by sacred scriptures and an established ecclesiastical hierarchy.
Native American religious traditions encompass a diverse array of beliefs, practices, and features of material culture and society that reflect and shape individual experiences and communal life among Indigenous communities in what is today the United States. While Native American religious traditions have long been the subject of scholarly ...
8 de jul. de 2021 · The Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) today released the inaugural 2020 PRRI Census of American Religion, which provides unprecedented county-level data on religious identity and diversity in the United States. Based on interviews with more than 500,000 respondents between 2013 and 2020, the census report reveals the shifting dynamics ...
Religions in the City, a collection of research on religion in America’s largest city with several chapters on Asian American religions. Contrary to predictions by social scientists who studied New York City, religion had not disappeared in importance in urban America, but was growing fast.
Religious involvement among American citizens has gradually grown from 17% in 1776 to 62% in 2000. The Thirteen Colonies were initially marked by low levels of religiosity. The two Great Awakenings — the first in the 1730s and 1740s, the second between the 1790s and 1840s — led to an immense rise in observance and gave birth to many ...
Street art facing the Palestinian Child Center in Shuafat Refugee Camp, Jerusalem. Photograph taken and provided by Sara A Williams. In “Journeys to and among the Margins: Transnational Religio-Racial Identity on American Christian Palestinian Solidarity Tours,” published in this issue of the JAAR, Roger Baumann and Sara A. Williams examine the intersection of racial and religious identity ...
