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Protestantism in the United States. Protestantism is the largest grouping of Christians in the United States, with its combined denominations collectively comprising about 43% of the country's population (or 141 million people) in 2019. [1] Other estimates suggest that 48.5% of the U.S. population (or 157 million people) is Protestant. [2]
The supporters of the Awakening and its evangelical thrust— Presbyterians, Baptists and Methodists —became the largest American Protestant denominations by the first decades of the 19th century. By the 1770s, the Baptists were growing rapidly both in the north (where they founded Brown University ), and in the South.
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Jul 23, 2017 · This was recorded on Facebook Live on July 23, 2017. The first 30 minutes is from my course "A Brief History of Protestantism in the United States", and com...
History 101: The Protestant Reformation | National Geographic. Who was Martin Luther? What is the Reformation and why does it matter? Roughly 500 years ago, Luther is said to have nailed...
A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada (1992) Rosman, Doreen. The Evolution of the English Churches, 1500–2000 (2003) 400pp; Ryrie, Alec. Protestants: The Faith That Made the Modern World (2017) excerpt, covers last five centuries; Winship, Michael P. Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America (Yale UP ...
The meeting was in Berlin, and he toured many other places in Germany, and learned more about Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation. When MLK's father returned to the United States, he decided to change his name and his son's name; and in 1957, their names were legally changed to Martin Luther King, Sr. and Martin Luther King, Jr.
