Chris Doss wrote:
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> I don't have any ideas about US religiosity other than the obvious ones (heavy Puritan background, etc.
If only it were "Puritanism" that was at the roots of current u.s. religiosity; it would lend some intellectual vigor. But the religiosity is evangelical and/or fundamentalist, neither of which has any linkage to the "Puritans" (almost as misleading a term as "postmodern"). The students at Michigan who came from the Dutch/Christian Reformed areas around Grand Rapids and Holland, Michigan, knew how to read. New England Puritanism led to Emerson and Unitarianism rather than to Billy Graham.
Carrol