I think that Mary Baker Eddy was a fascinating character in American religious history. — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes. — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim. — Dalia Mogahed Copy Share Image
I hope for an America where no president, no public official, no individual will ever be deemed a greater or lesser American… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is easy to forget, since the Catholic Church is now the only large American religious denomination whose ecclesiastical hierarchy continues to… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
“My reading of American religious history is that religion always functions best from the margins of society and not in the councils… — Randall Balmer Copy Share Image
“The evangelical church in America has, to a large extent, been co-opted by an American, religious version of the kingdom of the… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
“The great compromise between the American religious impulse and the American Enlightenment in the 1700s permitted any and every conceivable sect to… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“Deists of Jefferson’s generation fought tax support for religious institutions at a time when the only influential American religious sects were Protestant.… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Religion that is imposed upon its recipients turns out to engender either indifference or resentment. Most American religious leaders have recognized that… — William F. Schulz Copy Share Image
