God in America
God in America explores the tumultuous 400-year history of the intersection of religion and public life in America, from the first European settlements to the 2008 presidential election. This series examines how religious dissidents helped shape the American concept of religious liberty and the controversial evolution of that ideal in the nation's courts and political arena; how religious freedom and waves of new immigrants and religious revivals fueled competition in the religious marketplace; how movements for social reform -- from abolition to civil rights -- galvanized men and women to put their faith into political action; and how religious faith influenced conflicts from the American Revolution to the Cold War.
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The origins of America’s unique religious landscape—how the New World challenged the faiths the first European settlers brought with them. A new messa...
The beginnings of America’s experiment in religious liberty, examining how the political alliance between evangelical Baptists and enlightenment figur...
How religious belief shaped the origins of the Civil War and President Abraham Lincoln’s actions during the conflict. As Northern abolitionists and S...
The intellectual and cultural conflicts between traditional religious beliefs and the forces of modernity, which reached a crescendo in the 1925 trial...
A contradiction at the heart of the post-war era: while the Supreme Court embarked on decisions that required government actions to have a secular pu...
In the present day, exploring the political aspirations of the religious right, the dynamics of the contemporary religious marketplace, and the re-em...
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