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Article: Religious Thought and Writings
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- Dictionary of American History
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RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AND WRITINGS
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AND WRITINGS.
If Sydney E. Ahlstrom was correct when he wrote that "the country that declared its independence in 1776 was more clearly a product of Protestantism than any other country in the world" (
Theology in America,
p. 24), then it would hardly be surprising to find that Protestants have dominated those systematic and formal treatments of religion that have gained the widest circulation and been most influential in the United States. After 225 years of American history, Protestant hegemony in religious literature may be a source of embarrassment to scholars of religion. In a report of the National Endowment for the Humanities to ...