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Native American America -1550 Themes: Diversity, unity, spiritual traditions The National Period 1800-1860

Themes: immigration the new consensus, communitarianism, holiness

 

 Expansion of America 1900-1930 Themes: Social Gospel, Christian civilization,
Beginning Colonization 1550-1700

Themes: Calvinism, Establishment, regional diversity

 

 Civil War Era 1860-1880 Themes: Slavery, regional divide, Indian wars, reconstruction Midpassage 1930-1960

Themes: Mulligan stew, depression, World War II, anti-communism, "Judeo-Christian" nation, complacency

 
Colonial America 1700-1776

Themes: Revivalism, Arminianism, Deism, witchcraft

 

 The Gilded Age 1880-1900 Themes: modernism, industrialization, Fundamentalism, immigration Post-Protestant America 1960-present

Themes: Vietnam, drug culture, Eastern religions, Civil Rights, Women's Rights, evangelicalism

 
The New Nation 1776-1800 Themes: Democratic religion, disestablishment        
           
 
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