At about the same time, Joseph Smith founded a new American religion-and soon met with the wrath of the mainstream Protestant majority.

几乎同时，约瑟夫·史密斯在美国成立一个全新的教派，不久后就与群情愤激的新教主要力量发生冲突。

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Perhaps the most interesting aspect of Upon the Altar of the Nation is Stout's argument that unprecedented destructiveness of the civil War generated what he calls an American civil religion.

也许《祭坛上的民族》最让人感兴趣的是Stout的论点，前所未有的破坏性内战产生了他所说的美国公民信仰。

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After a doctorate at Princeton in the history of religion, she went to work at Medarex, an American biotech firm that her husband was just getting off the ground in the 1980s.

在普林斯顿获得宗教史博士学位以后，她进入一家叫Medarex的美国生物技术公司工作，她的丈夫也在上世纪的80年代进入了这一领域。

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The study also found that more than one-quarter of American adults have left the religion in which they were raised.

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Thomas Jefferson and other early American leaders purposely designed a national government that had no established religion.

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Like "American Idiot," the new CD offers some strong political comments on religion and war.

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Then again, almost every American religion sooner or later becomes a Gospel of Wealth.

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But the really distinctive feature of American religion is the area in the middle.

ECONOMIST: Therapy of the masses

Self-improvement has forever been an American religion, but the norms about what is normal keep changing.

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