Christianity in the United States | Wikipedia audio article
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Christianity in the United States


00:02:11 1 Major denominational families
00:03:13 1.1 Protestantism
00:03:57 1.1.1 Evangelical Protestantism
00:08:07 1.1.2 Mainline Protestantism
00:13:14 1.2 Catholic Church
00:15:49 1.3 Eastern Orthodox Christianity
00:16:44 1.4 Oriental Orthodox Christianity
00:17:36 1.5 Latter-day Saint Movement
00:20:08 2 History
00:20:43 2.1 Early Colonial period
00:21:02 2.1.1 Spanish colonies
00:22:31 2.1.2 British colonies
00:22:55 2.1.2.1 Virginia
00:24:14 2.1.2.2 New England
00:25:27 2.1.2.3 Tolerance in Rhode Island and Pennsylvania
00:26:58 2.1.2.4 Maryland
00:27:44 2.1.3 Great Awakening
00:30:08 2.1.4 American Revolution
00:31:33 2.1.5 Church and state debate
00:32:33 2.2 19th century
00:32:42 2.2.1 Separation of church and state
00:33:51 2.2.2 Second Great Awakening
00:35:35 2.2.3 African American churches
00:37:05 2.2.4 Liberal Christianity
00:38:19 2.2.5 Catholic Church
00:39:07 2.2.6 Fundamentalism
00:39:55 2.3 20th century
00:40:04 2.3.1 Evangelicalism
00:41:14 2.3.2 National associations
00:44:24 2.3.3 Pentecostalism
00:45:05 2.3.4 Catholic Church
00:45:40 3 Youth programs
00:47:27 4 Demographics
00:47:36 4.1 Demographics by state
00:47:45 4.2 Beliefs and attitudes
00:50:49 4.3 Church attendance
00:51:14 4.3.1 By state
00:51:38 4.4 Race
00:52:40 4.5 Ethnicity
00:54:03 4.6 Conversion
00:55:34 5 Self-reported membership statistics
00:56:00 6 See also



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Christianity is the most adhered to religion in the United States, with 75% of polled American adults identifying themselves as Christian in 2015. This is down from 85% in 1990, lower than 81.6% in 2001, and slightly lower than 78% in 2012. About 62% of those polled claim to be members of a church congregation. The United States has the largest Christian population in the world, with nearly 240 million Christians, although other countries have higher percentages of Christians among their populations. 
All Protestant denominations accounted for 51.3%, while the Catholic Church by itself, at 23.9%, was the largest individual denomination. A 2008 Pew study categorizes white evangelical Protestants, 26.3% of the population, as the country's largest religious cohort; another study in 2004 estimates evangelical Protestants of all races at 30–35%. The nation's second-largest church and the single largest Protestant denomination is the Southern Baptist Convention. The United Methodist Church is the third largest church and the largest mainline Protestant denomination in the United States. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) is the fourth-largest church in the United States and the largest church originating in the U.S. The Church of God in Christ is the fifth-largest denomination, the largest Pentecostal church, and the largest traditionally African-American denomination in the nation. Among Eastern Christian denominations, there are several Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches, with just below 1 million adherents in the US, or 0.4% of the total population.Christianity was introduced to the Americas as it was first colonized by Europeans beginning in the 16th and 17th centuries. Going forward from its foundation, the United States has been called a Protestant nation by a variety of sources. Immigration further increased Christian numbers. Today most Christian churches in the United States are either Mainline Protestant, Evangelical Protestant, or Catholic.