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date: 30 April 2025

Religion. 

Source:
The Oxford Companion to United States History
Author(s):
Mark A. NollMark A. Noll

As the twentieth century ended, almost everything was up for grabs in American religious history. Social scientists argued whether the United States was nearly unique in its religiosity (e.g., with church attendance rates higher than anywhere else in the Western world except Poland, Ireland, and South Africa) or far gone in a process of ... ...

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