The result was a first, the “Historical Atlas of Religion in America,” which provided Gaustad with a rare scholarly surprise when he completed it in 1962.

That’s the opening line of Thomas Tweed’s encyclopedic new book Religion in the Lands That Became America: From the Ice Age to the Information Age (Yale Univ., May 2025). It also describes his ...

The topic of the 2007 Ronald Reagan Symposium was "The Future of Religion in American Politics." Panelists discussed religion as both a dividing and uniting force in American politics.

The book’s main sections—on religious regulation, religious competition and religious freedom—trace in great detail the ways in which the Founders turned from the ideals of the Planters of ...

On Monday’s program, Paul Solman will explore the religious diversity of the U.S. in a conversation with Robert Putnam, the co-author of a new book on religion in America. Support PBS News Hour ...

"God in America" looks at religion and public life during the past 500 years, ... The three-part series, which includes documentary films, historical dramatizations and scholars' analysis, ...

In another episode, about Mir Dad, a Punjabi Indian who immigrated to the American Southwest around 1917, Yale University historical anthropologist Zareena Grewal talks about how Muslims built ...

Declarations of 'In God We Trust' or 'Under God' are almost always paired with polices that have little to do with religion or the Christian faith.