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Religion – Islam
America has gone through many changes and religious demographics in the United States have been changing since before the nation was even founded. In 1765, before the Revolutionary War, Congregationalists dominated the religious landscape. In the next 100 years, however, the largest religious group in America would change three times: first to Baptists, then to Methodists, and finally to Catholics. Each shift was precipitated by different factors, from the geographic expansion of the United States to questions of theology of immigration. The religious freedom of the United States allowed these remarkably fast shifts in religion that could not have occurred in nations without separation of church and state.
Religion can be defined as a set of beliefs and practices which are often centered upon specific supernatural and moral claims about reality. The cosmos and the human nature and are often codified as prayer, ritual or religious law.......

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