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unusual facts about American religion


Afro-American religion

Afro-American religions (also African diasporic religions) are a number of related religions that developed in the Americas among enslaved Africans and their descendants in various countries of Latin America, the Caribbean, and parts of the southern United States.


Eduardo Obregón Pagán

Pagán is a frequent guest lecturer on topics such as American West, Latinos in the United States, American youth subculture, American religion.

The Rough Guide to Voodoo

The Rough Guide To Voodoo is a world music compilation album originally released in 2013 featuring music inspired and influenced by the Voodoo religious tradition (from West African Vodun to New World Haitian Vodou, Louisiana Voodoo, and related movements).


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Association of Religion Data Archives

Roger Finke, then professor of sociology at Purdue University, founded the American Religion Data Archive in 1996 on a grant from the Lilly Endowment .

CESNUR

J. Gordon Melton, Institute for the Study of American Religion (ISAR)

God is Back

Micklethwait and Wooldridge provided a quick coverage of American history, in which they argue that American religion was dramatically transformed by the disestablishment of churches after the American Revolution.

Mormonism

For this and other reasons, including a belief by many Mormons in American exceptionalism, Molly Worthen speculates that this may be why Leo Tolstoy described Mormonism as the "quintessential 'American religion'".

Peggy Levitt

She claims that immigration globalizes American religion as well as economics and politics and creates a more pluralistic, cosmopolitan American society.

The Faiths of the Founding Fathers

The Faiths of the Founding Fathers is a book by historian of American religion David L. Holmes of the College of William & Mary.