Chronology of Religious Life in America

This chronology begins with an overview of religious life in the United States, and then focuses on developments from the settlement of Jamestown by Anglican settlers in 1607 to the Catholic backlash created in response to Nancy Pelosi's comments on the church's views of abortion during an August 2008 episode of Meet the Press. Three appendices focus on the distribution of major religious groups in the United States, the distribution of various Christian religious denominations in the United States, and the effect of religion on the 2008 election.