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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]
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Anti-Catholic animus in the United States reached a peak in...
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A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada...
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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. Other estimates suggest that 48.5% of the U.S. population (or 157 million people) is Protestant. Simultaneously, this corresponds to around 20% ...
Today, 46.5% of the United States population is either Mainline Protestant, Evangelical Protestant, or a Black church attendee. Christianity was introduced with the first European settlers beginning in the 16th and 17th centuries. Colonists from Northern Europe introduced Protestantism in its Anglican and Reformed forms to Plymouth Colony ...
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.
Summary. It is virtually impossible to understand the history of the American experience without Protestantism. The theological and religious descendants of the Protestant Reformation arrived in the United States in the early 17th century, shaped American culture in the 18th century, grew dramatically in the 19th century, and continued to be the guardians of American religious life in the 20th ...
