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Religion
General Information on Religion and Religious
Groups in the U.S.
Religion
in Early America Many of the original
colonies were established by Europeans seeking
religious freedom. To learn more about these groups
and the religious history of early America, explore
this page.
Religious
Movements is probably the best place to start
looking for information on Religion in the U.S.
This website, developed at the University of Virginia,
offers elaborate profiles of hundreds of religious
groups, with links to official home pages and
further references.
DiviningAmerica:Religion
and the National Culture
Essays by leading scholars offering chronological
and thematic overviews of various aspects of religion
in the U.S. (chronological or thematic surveys);
with further links to online resources.
This site is part of TeacherServe at the National
Humanities Center (an Interactive Curriculum Enrichment
Service for Teachers)
Hartford
Institute for Religion
A portal site with worldwide links to official
denominations websites (in alphabetical order).
The Center for the Study of Religion
Provides links to information on various religious groups and is supported by Princeton University.
Religion
in America
An independent directory compiled by Mike Madin
at the University of Washington's Comparative
Religion program.
Specific Religious Groups (listed
alphabetically)
Amish
A very conservative group best known for their
refusal to embrace modern technology, the Amish
typically live in rural farming communities, and
use horses and buggies as their main mode of transportation.
Baptists
(Southern Baptist
Convention) The largest protestant denomination
in the U.S. is the Southern Baptists. As in any
large group, beliefs and practices vary widely
among Baptists. A major ideological rift in recent
years gave rise to yet another Baptist group,
the more moderate Cooperative
Baptist Fellowship.
Branch
Davidians (Founded in 1929 and came to a violent
end at Waco in 1993, under David Koresh.)
Catholics
(portal site of the US Conference of Catholic
Bishops, with a link to the American
College at Louvain)
Christian
Scientists (founded by Mary Baker Eddy, in
1879;publishers of the widely respected newspaper
Christian
Science Monitor)
Church
of Scientology (official home page); see also
a profile
by ReligiousTolerance.org
Church
of the Nazarene
Episcopalians
Hare
Krishna (offical home page of the Hare Krishna
magazine Back to Godhead.
Jehovah’s
Witnesses (official home page of the Watchtower
Society)
Jews:
Hasidism
Orthodox Judaism
Lutherans
(home page of the Missouri Synod, with links to
related sites)
Methodists
(United)
Mennonites
Moonies
(The Unification Church)
Mormons
(The
Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints)
(official home pages)
Nation
of Islam (see also Black Muslims)
Quakers:
The Religious Society of Friends
Seventh-day
Adventists
Shakers
(A group that separated from the Quakers; Shakers
were very hard-working and productive, known for
their simple, functional hand-made furniature,
and emphasized a lifestyle of simplicity and celibacy.
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