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God in America

Season 1
Examine how religious dissidents helped shape the American concept of religious liberty and the controversial evolution of that ideal; how religious freedom, immigrants and religious revivals fueled competition in the religious marketplace; how movements for social reform galvanized people into political action; and how religious faith influenced conflicts close and far from home.
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  1. S1 E1 - A New Adam
    October 11, 2010
    56min
    TV-PG
    Explore the origins of America's unique religious landscape--how the New World challenged and changed the faiths the first European settlers brought with them.
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  2. S1 E2 - A New Eden
    October 11, 2010
    56min
    TV-PG
    Consider the origins of America's experiment in religious liberty, examining how the unlikely alliance between evangelical Baptists and enlightenment figures such as Thomas Jefferson forged a new concept of religious freedom.
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  3. S1 E3 - A Nation Reborn
    October 12, 2010
    51min
    TV-PG
    Explore how religion suffused the Civil War. As slavery split the nation in two, Northern abolitionists and Southern slaveholders turned to the Bible to support their cause. In the White House, Abraham Lincoln, who previously had put his faith in reason over revelation, embarked on a spiritual journey that transformed his ideas about God and the ultimate meaning of the war.
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  4. S1 E4 - A New Light
    October 11, 2010
    55min
    TV-PG
    During the 1800s, modernity challenged tradition and drove a wedge between liberal and conservative believers. Isaac Mayer Wise established Reform Judaism while his opponents adhered to Old World traditions. Charles Briggs sought to wed his evangelical faith with modern biblical scholarship. William Jennings Bryan battled Clarence Darrow in a battle between scientific and religious truth.
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  5. S1 E5 - Soul of a Nation
    October 13, 2010
    55min
    TV-PG
    After WWII, Billy Graham tried to inspire a religious revival in a battle with “Godless Communism.” Non-believers and religious minorities appealed to the Supreme Court to test the constitutionality of religious expression in public schools. And Martin Luther King, Jr. called upon the nation to honor both biblical teachings and the founders’ democratic ideals of equal justice.
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  6. S1 E6 - Of God and Caesar
    October 13, 2010
    55min
    TV-PG
    Explore the religious and political aspirations of conservative evangelicals’ moral crusade over divisive social issues like abortion and gay marriage in the present day. Across America, the religious marketplace expanded as new waves of immigrants from Asia, the Middle East and Latin America made the United States the most religiously diverse nation on earth.
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