DOCUMENTS ON
RELIGION IN
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A
Classification System of Religious Groups in the Americas (.pdf)
by Clifton L. Holland
Encyclopedia
of American Religions
by J. Gordon Melton
A History of Religion in the USA to 1850
History of Religion in America
Religion in the USA - An Overview
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life:
U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, 2007
Hispanic Protestant Church Growth in the USA
Hispanic Churches in American Public
Life:
Summary of Findings (692KB)
NEWS ARTICLES
(NOTE: dozens of links to news
articles that appeared on
this website prior to March 2007 were destroyed when
hackers attacked our Internet server; we apologize for this inconvenience.)
See recent 2008 articles on
The
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
from theThe Washington Post website
See The Boston Globe
website for articles (beginning in 2002) on
Sexual Abuse in the Roman Catholic
Church
Born Again:
America’s evangelicals are
growing more moderate—and more powerful
by Walter Russell Mead in
The Atlantic magazine, March 2008
Pope,
in U.S., is Ashamed of Pedofile Priests
from the Los Angeles Times - 16 April 2008
A Pastor
Begs to Differ With Flock on Miracles
(the Santuario de Chimayo, a small adobe church in
this village of northern New Mexico, is known as
the Lourdes of America for many Hispanic Roman Catholics)
by Eric Eckholm - 20 February 2008
Praying to
the Healers:
Folk Saints, From Catholicism to Pedrito and Fidencio
by Mary Lee Grant - 20 February 1999