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The United States has no established church and constitutionally guarantees religious free exercise, a framework that has allowed an unusually wide range of traditions to take root and often originate here, including the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Seventh-day Adventism and modern Pentecostalism. Protestant Christianity in its many denominations remains the largest religious grouping, alongside a substantial Roman Catholic population built up through successive waves of immigration, and significant Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu communities concentrated in different regions and cities. The country has also incubated major esoteric and New Age currents, from nineteenth century Spiritualism and Theosophy to twentieth century Neopaganism and channeling movements, many of which spread internationally from American origins. Indigenous nations across the country maintain their own distinct religious and ceremonial traditions, largely independent of the settler religious history described above.

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Law and State
Establishment Status
No Establishment 3
The First Amendment of 1791 prohibits Congress from establishing a religion while guaranteeing free exercise, with extensive Supreme Court litigation continuing to define the boundary between permissible accommodation and prohibited establishment.
State Funding Mechanism
The United States has no state funding mechanism for religion at the federal level. The First Amendment's Establishment Clause, ratified 1791, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion", has been read since Everson v. Board of Education (1947) as barring direct government funding of religious institutions, though indirect and neutral mechanisms, tax exemption for religious property and organizations chief among them, remain in place nationwide. 4
Apostasy or Blasphemy Law
The United States has no federal blasphemy or apostasy law and none is constitutionally possible: the First Amendment bars Congress from establishing a religion or abridging speech, and the Fourteenth Amendment extends that bar to state and local government. In Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson (1952) the Supreme Court struck down a New York statute banning "sacrilegious" films, holding that "it is not the business of government in our nation to suppress real or imagined attacks upon a particular religious doctrine, whether they appear in publications, speeches or motion pictures." Several states retained blasphemy statutes on their books into the twentieth century despite that ruling; the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down its own as unconstitutional as recently as 2010. No apostasy offense has ever existed in American law. Burning a religious text, publicly mocking a faith, or declaring apostasy from any religion are all protected speech; the outer limits of that protection are set by ordinary doctrines such as incitement and true threats, not by any religion-specific carve-out. 5
Registration or Recognition Regime
No government registration or permission is required for a religious group to organize, meet, worship or collect funds. The First Amendment forbids a law establishing or restricting religion, and a registration requirement conditioning a group's existence on state approval would itself run against that guarantee. A congregation may still seek voluntary state nonprofit incorporation and, separately, federal tax-exempt recognition under Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(3); both are optional civil-law conveniences for holding property, opening accounts and issuing deductible-donation receipts, never a precondition for existing or operating as a religious body. 3
Ban or Official Watchlist
The United States maintains no list of banned or officially watchlisted religious organizations. The First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause bars federal and state governments from prohibiting the free exercise of religion, and constitutional doctrine holds that government may not regulate religious belief itself or punish religiously motivated conduct out of disapproval of a particular religion or of religion in general. 6
Concordat Basis
The United States holds no concordat with the Holy See. Full diplomatic relations were established on 10 January 1984 under President Reagan, ending a gap that had lasted since 1870, but the relationship rests on an exchanged embassy and nunciature rather than a bilateral treaty. The First Amendment's bar on an establishment of religion forecloses the kind of church-state instrument a concordat is, so the absence follows directly from the country's own constitutional structure rather than from any lack of a formal relationship. 7
Geography
Latitude
37.1 degrees north 2
Approximate reference point, rounded to one decimal place; a country's extent has no single center, so this coordinate is conventional, not a survey measurement.
Longitude
95.7 degrees west 2
Approximate reference point, rounded to one decimal place; a country's extent has no single center, so this coordinate is conventional, not a survey measurement.
Status
Legal Status
The First Amendment (1791) prohibits Congress from establishing a religion while guaranteeing free exercise; extensive Supreme Court litigation continues to define the boundary between permissible accommodation and prohibited establishment. 3
Classification
State Funding of Religion
State Neutrality Among Religions 8
Demographics
Religious Composition
Protestant affiliation below half the population; Catholics the largest single denomination at around 20%; religiously unaffiliated around 28-30%; Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu and other communities each in the low single digits (Pew Research Center, Religious Composition of the World, 2010-2020). 1
Government
Capital
Washington, D.C. 2
Government Type
constitutional federal republic 2
Sovereignty Status
Sovereign UN member state 2
Established Year
1776 2
4 July 1776 (declared independence from Great Britain); 3 September 1783 (recognized by Great Britain)
Location
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Religion and History in the United States

The United States is religiously diverse and historically Protestant-majority, though Protestant affiliation has fallen below half the population in recent decades, with Catholics forming the largest single denomination at around 20 percent, religiously unaffiliated Americans now roughly 28 to 30 percent, and Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu and other communities each in the low single digits, per estimates including Pew Research's Religious Composition of the World, 2010-2020 and its own extensive US-specific surveys.

Many of the original thirteen colonies were founded explicitly for religious purposes, including Puritan New England seeking to build a model Christian commonwealth and Catholic-founded Maryland and Quaker-founded Pennsylvania offering unusual, if limited, religious toleration for their era, and the First Amendment's 1791 establishment and free exercise clauses, prohibiting a national church while protecting individual religious practice, created a novel constitutional model that avoided the state-church arrangements common in contemporary Europe. American religious history has produced numerous homegrown new religious movements, including the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints founded by Joseph Smith in 1830, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Science, Seventh-day Adventism and Pentecostalism, alongside recurring waves of religious revival known as the Great Awakenings that reshaped American Protestant life across the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The First Amendment and Church-State Separation Disputes

The First Amendment's religion clauses, prohibiting Congress from establishing a religion while guaranteeing free exercise, have generated extensive and ongoing constitutional litigation over where the line between permissible accommodation and prohibited establishment falls, addressed through evolving Supreme Court tests including the 1971 Lemon test, later narrowed, and a more recent history-and-tradition approach favored by the Court's current majority, applied in cases spanning school prayer, religious displays on public property, funding for religious schools and, especially since the 2010s, disputes over religious exemptions from anti-discrimination and healthcare mandate laws for businesses and institutions objecting on religious grounds, as in the Supreme Court's 2014 Hobby Lobby and 2018 Masterpiece Cakeshop decisions.

The country's religious landscape has also shaped its politics directly, from the nineteenth-century abolitionist movement's substantial religious motivation to the twentieth-century civil rights movement's roots in Black church leadership under figures including Martin Luther King Jr, and more recently the rise of the religious right as a durable force in American conservative politics from the late 1970s onward, closely tied to evangelical Protestant mobilization around abortion, and, since 2022, the Supreme Court's reversal of the constitutional right to abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.

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Fought within the United States from 1861 to 1865; its dead were absorbed into a national civil religion of Decoration Day and the Gettysburg Address.

Source God's Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil WarGeorge C. Rable

Curator of Indian art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston from 1917 until his death.

Source Coomaraswamy: His Life and WorkRoger Lipsey
Source Church Abuse Settlement FinalizedMeghan Dorney, The Boston Pilot
Source 660 Million Dollar Settlement in Priest AbusesJoe Mozingo and John Spano, Los Angeles Times
Source Judge Approves 21 Million Dollar Milwaukee Archdiocese Settlement
Source Bankruptcy Court Confirms Archdiocese of Santa Fe Plan of Reorganization Settling Hundreds of Sexual Abuse Claims
Source The Boston Globe Spotlight Team's Investigation of Clergy Sexual AbuseThe Boston Globe Spotlight Team (Walter V. Robinson, Michael Rezendes, Sacha Pfeiffer, Matt Carroll)
Camden, Cities

Protestant affiliation below half the population; Catholics the largest single denomination at around 20%.

Source Religious Composition of the World, 2010-2020Pew Research Center

The United States framed the contest as the defence of faith, adding under God to the pledge and In God We Trust as the national motto.

Source Religion and the Cold WarDianne Kirby (editor)

Covenant of the Goddess is a cross-traditional national Wiccan church formed in and registered in the United States.

Source Covenant Of The Goddess, IRS Form 990 (ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer)
Source Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People (the Dallas Charter)United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

The United States banned these ceremonies from 1883 and acknowledged the right to hold them only in 1978, which is the legal background the declaration answers.

Source God Is Red: A Native View of Religion, 30th anniversary editionVine Deloria Jr.
Source Diocese of Camden Chapter 11 Plan Confirmed by U.S. Bankruptcy Court
Source Duluth Diocese Concludes Bankruptcy
Source Chapter 11 Settlement, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gallup
Source Reorganization Information, Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg
Source Judge Confirms Plan Settling Montana Clergy Sex-Abuse Claims
Source Judge Approves 34 Million Dollar Clergy Abuse Settlement with New Ulm Diocese
Source The Diocese of Norwich Emerges from Chapter 11 Bankruptcy with Confirmation of Reorganization Plan
Source Judge Confirms Bankruptcy Plan for Rochester Diocese
Source San Diego Diocese to Pay 198M to Settle Sexual Abuse Claims by ClergyAssociated Press
Source Judge to Approve Syracuse Diocese's $176M Bankruptcy Plan
Source Del. Diocese Settles Priest Abuse Claims for 77M
Duluth, Cities

Feraferia was founded by Frederick Fred Adams in Southern California, United States.

Source Margot Adler, Drawing Down the MoonMargot Adler
Gallup, Cities
Harrisburg, Cities
Helena, Cities
Source The Nature and Scope of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests and Deacons in the United States, 1950-2002John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Kemetic Orthodoxy is a modern Kemetic reconstructionist religious organization founded in the United States in 1988.

Source Kemetic Orthodoxy: the faith and its practiceTamara L. Siudathe holders' own account
Source The Sexual Abuse of Children in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston: A Report by the Attorney GeneralThomas F. Reilly, Attorney General of Massachusetts

He navigated Hokulea from Hawaii to Tahiti in 1976 without instruments, and afterwards taught the method to Hawaiian students.

Source Hawaiki Rising: Hokule'a, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian RenaissanceSam Low
Mexicayotl, Religions

The movement later spread from Mexico City into Chicano and Mexican-American communities in the United States.

Source Mexika.org, "The Pseudohistorical Origins of the Mexicayotl Movement," 2017
Milwaukee, Cities

He held the chair in the history of religions at Chicago from 1956 until his death in 1986.

Source Mircea Eliade: The Romanian Roots, 1907-1945Mac Linscott Ricketts
New Ulm, Cities
Norwich, Cities
Source Report 1 of the 40th Statewide Investigating Grand Jury (Pennsylvania)40th Statewide Investigating Grand Jury, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Rochester, Cities
Santa Fe, Cities
Source Report of the Independent Investigation, Sexual Abuse Task Force of the Southern Baptist Convention (the Guidepost Report)Guidepost Solutions LLC
Stregheria, Religions
Source Sabina Magliocco, Witching CultureSabina Magliocco
Syracuse, Cities
Source Report on the Holy See's Institutional Knowledge and Decision-Making Related to Former Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick (1930 to 2017)Secretariat of State, Holy See
Wilmington, Cities

Conducted

Source The Last Days of the Sioux NationRobert M. Utley

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Source Mapping Yoruba Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational CommunitiesKamari Maxine Clarke
Pittsburgh, Cities

Pittsburgh is in western Pennsylvania, at the confluence of the Allegheny and the Monongahela.

Source Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd editionMichael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik (eds.)
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Saint Louis, Cities
Salt Lake City, Cities

Salt Lake City is the capital of Utah, within the United States.

Source Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious TraditionJan Shipps
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Sedona, Sacred Sites
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Source The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest ScientistReviel Netz and William Noel
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Namesake Of

Berkelium is named for Berkeley, California. Made at Berkeley in 1949 and named for the town, by deliberate analogy with terbium and its village.

Source Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the ElementsJohn Emsley

Californium is named for the state of California and for the University of California. Made at Berkeley in 1950. The team noted that, unlike the earlier transuranics, this one had no chemical analogue to guide the name.

Source Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the ElementsJohn Emsley

Livermorium is named for Livermore, California. Named in 2012 for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which supplied the target material for the Dubna synthesis.

Source Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the ElementsJohn Emsley

Tennessine is named for the state of Tennessee. Named in 2016 for the Oak Ridge and Vanderbilt contribution. The ine ending marks it as a halogen, following astatine.

Source Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the ElementsJohn Emsley

Originated Here

Apache, Cultures

Buddhafield arose in the United States.

Source World Religions and Spirituality ProjectDavid G. Bromley (founding director) and the profile authors of record
Cayuga, Cultures
Source The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European ColonizationDaniel K. Richter

Dianetics was published in the United States in 1950 and the church was incorporated there in 1953 and 1954.

Source The Church of Scientology: A History of a New ReligionHugh B. Urban

A secular observance of Darwin's birthday promoted from the United States.

The Fellowship of Friends was founded in California, United States.

Source World Religions and Spirituality ProjectDavid G. Bromley (founding director) and the profile authors of record
Hopi, Cultures

Devised by a New Jersey humanist group as a December observance.

Lakota, Cultures

Love Has Won arose in the United States.

Source World Religions and Spirituality ProjectDavid G. Bromley (founding director) and the profile authors of record
Mohawk, Cultures
Source The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European ColonizationDaniel K. Richter

A secular observance kept opposite the United States National Day of Prayer.

Source Encyclopaedia Britannica (online academic reference)Encyclopaedia Britannica editors

The Navajo Nation, largest reservation in the United States, spans Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.

Source The Navajo Nation, official government websiteNavajo Nationthe holders' own account
Ojibwe, Cultures

Ojibwe reservations span Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and North Dakota in the United States.

Source Chippewa CustomsFrances Densmore
Oneida, Cultures
Source The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European ColonizationDaniel K. Richter
Onondaga, Cultures
Source The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European ColonizationDaniel K. Richter
Seneca, Cultures
Source The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European ColonizationDaniel K. Richter

The Source Family arose in Los Angeles, United States.

Source World Religions and Spirituality ProjectDavid G. Bromley (founding director) and the profile authors of record

The Way International was founded in Ohio, United States.

Source World Religions and Spirituality ProjectDavid G. Bromley (founding director) and the profile authors of record
Tuscarora, Cultures
Source The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European ColonizationDaniel K. Richter
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica (online academic reference)Encyclopaedia Britannica editors

Word of Faith Fellowship arose in North Carolina, United States.

Source World Religions and Spirituality ProjectDavid G. Bromley (founding director) and the profile authors of record

Spread Events Here

Source About Siddhachalam (Siddhachalam.org)
Source Adventist-Evangelical Conferences, 1955 to 1956 (Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventism)
Source Southern Province Elects New Leadership at 2026 Synod (Moravian Church Southern Province)
Source Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (Wikipedia)
Source Brigham Young Academy (BYU Library, L. Tom Perry Special Collections)

San Francisco, California, where the first temple was built; the 1893 Parliament was held in Chicago, Illinois, named in the description rather than anchored to a second place entity.

Source Buddhism in the United States (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors

The Massachusetts Bay Colony and the neighbouring New England colonies, in what is now the United States.

Source Puritanism: A Very Short IntroductionFrancis J. Bremer
Source Our Attendance at the 2023 Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago (Cao Dai)
Source History Of Jehovah's Witnesses (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source Rev. Dennis J. Bennett Papers (Regent University)
Source Francois Duvalier (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source Ellen G. White: A Brief Biography (Ellen G. White Estate)
Source Erton C. Kohler Elected as General Conference President (North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists)
Source Edmunds-Tucker Act (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source 39th FEZANA Annual General Meeting and the Z-BUILD Initiative (FEZANA)
Source Presbytery Of Philadelphia (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source Hinduism In The United States (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source Inside the Ornate Temple of a Young Religion From Vietnam (Brays Oaks Management District)
Source JAINA Convention 2025 (JAINA)
Source Jehovah's Witnesses Purchase Property Adjacent to Their World Headquarters (jw.org)
Source Faithful Narrative (1737), The Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University

Fayette, New York.

Source Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of MormonismRichard L. Bushman
Source History Of The Jews In The United States (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors

The Peter Whitmer log home, Fayette, New York.

Source Saints: The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days, Volume 1, The Standard of Truth, 1815-1846The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saintsthe holders' own account

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where the Ministerium was formed, with the later Midwest expansion named in the description; anchored to the United States since both fall inside the modern country.

Source Henry Muhlenberg (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source Pumroy-Cordero and Schondelmeyer Are Elected Moderators on First Ballot (Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.))
Source Methodist Episcopal Church, South (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors

Caldwell and Daviess counties, Missouri, and Nauvoo, Illinois.

Source Saints: The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days, Volume 1, The Standard of Truth, 1815-1846The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saintsthe holders' own account
Source First Mission House (Wikipedia)
Source Official Declaration 2 (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source The Gnadenhutten Massacre (Ohio Memory, Ohio History Connection)
Source Azusa Street Revival (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source John Street United Methodist Church (General Commission on Archives and History, The United Methodist Church)
Source E. Clifford Nelson, The Lutherans in North America, Revised Edition (Fortress Press, 1980)E. Clifford Nelson
Source African Methodist Episcopal Church (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source Prophet Introduces the Restoration Proclamation (Church Newsroom)

Hilo, Hawaii; no separate Hawaii place entity exists in the graph, so this anchors to the United States.

Source Overseas Shinto (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source Wilson Re-Elected as GC President and Other Actions from GC Session (Upper Columbia Conference)

Anchored to the United States for want of a separate Hawaii place entity in the atlas today; the church itself stood in Honolulu, not on the mainland, an approximation named here rather than silently rounded.

Source Tenrikyo Hawai Dendo Shi (McBride Rare Books)Tenrikyo Hawaii Mission (1957 original); catalogue description by McBride Rare Books
Source This Day in Presbyterian History: The Old School/New School Division (PCA Historical Center)
Source General Conference Session of 1888 (Adventist Encyclopedia)
Source Adventist Pioneers in the West: Inventing a New Church Structure (Pacific Union Recorder)
Source Assemblies Of God USA (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source 80 Years Ago: The Assemblies of God Was a Founding Member of the National Association of Evangelicals (Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center)

312 Azusa Street, Los Angeles, California.

Source The Azusa Street Mission and Revival: The Birth of the Global Pentecostal MovementCecil M. Robeck Jr.

Chicago, Illinois.

Source Baha'i Faith In The United States (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors

Lovely Lane, Baltimore, Maryland, with the preceding Barratt's Chapel meeting in Delaware.

Source American Saint: Francis Asbury and the MethodistsJohn Wigger
Source The Family: A Proclamation to the World (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)the holders' own account
Source President Thomas S. Monson Announced a Lower Age Requirement for Missionary Service (Church Newsroom)
Source Santeria (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source Charismatic Renewal, Roman Catholicism in Western Pennsylvania (Duquesne University Library)
Source ELCA Approves Full Communion With Moravian Church (WFN.org)

Seabury's own consecration took place at Aberdeen, Scotland, but the disestablishment and refounding this event describes is the American church's own; anchored to the United States.

Source The EpiscopaliansDavid Hein and Gardiner H. Shattuck Jr.
Source First General Assembly of the PCUSA (Association of Religion Data Archives)
Source Delegates Vote No on Women's Ordination (Inter-American Division)
Source Assemblies Of God USA (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors

The dispute and the new denomination's formation centered on the United States-based United Methodist Church, though the Global Methodist Church also includes conferences outside the United States.

Source Global Methodist Church (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source Seventh-day Adventist Church (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors

The Salt Lake Valley, in what is now the United States, though the valley itself was Mexican territory, not yet a United States possession, at the moment of arrival in July 1847.

Source Brigham Young: Pioneer ProphetJohn G. Turner
Source Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod (Wikipedia)
Source History (Pentecostal/Charismatic Churches of North America)
Source The 1908 Social Creed of the Methodist Episcopal Church (General Board of Church and Society)
Source Episcopal-Moravian Full Communion Celebration (Episcopal News Service)
Source Moravian Church (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source May 25: Old Side/New Side Reunion, 1758 (This Day in Presbyterian History, PCA Historical Center)

Plymouth, 1620, and the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630, both in modern Massachusetts.

Source The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New EnglandHarry S. Stout
Source Stories From GA: 1983 Reunion (Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.))
Source RCA General Synod 2021 News Summary (Reformed Church in America)
Source The Reverend Robert Hunt: The First Chaplain at Jamestown (National Park Service, Historic Jamestowne)National Park Service, Historic Jamestowne

Kodiak Island, Alaska, mapped to the modern United States, though Alaska was Russian territory at the time of this mission. That is named honestly here rather than concealed by using the present day location.

Source Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two CenturiesSergei Kan
Source Seventh-day Adventist Church (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source Five Things You Should Know about the St. George Utah Temple (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church History Department
Source Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety (SCOTUSblog)
Source Church Of The Lukumi Babalu Aye V. City Of Hialeah (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source The Adopting Act of 1729 (PCA Historical Center)
Source FEZANA Announces Historic Zoroastrian Days at Texas State Capitol, Rice University (FEZANA)
Source New United Methodist Church Structure Ratified (UM News)
Source United Methodists Repeal Their 40-Year Ban on LGBTQ Clergy (UM News)Heather Hahn
Source Formation of The United Methodist Church (umc.org)The United Methodist Church
Source United Methodist Church (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source Voice of Prophecy Turns 95 Years Old (Adventist Review)
Source Watch Tower Society Incorporated for Dissemination of Bible Truths (jw.org)
Source Brooklyn Bethel: Jehovah's Witnesses' Headquarters in New York (jw.org)
Source Ninety Years Embracing the Name Jehovah's Witnesses (jw.org)
Source Christ's Presence, What Does It Mean to You? (jw.org)
Source World Communion of Reformed Churches Is Born (Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.))
Source United Lutheran Church in America Records (Pacific Lutheran University Archives)
Source Anglican Church in North America (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source Tsubaki Grand Shrine Of America (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors

Hawaii and the American mainland; no separate Hawaii place entity exists in the graph, so this anchors to the United States.

Source Overseas Shinto (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source 12th World Zoroastrian Congress 2022 NYC (FEZANA)
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The U.S. had roughly 101 million religious nones in 2020, up 97% from a decade earlier.
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2. The World Factbook (Central Intelligence Agency)
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
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Free Speech Center, Middle Tennessee State UniversityArticle body
Quote, Article body
Blasphemy laws punish people who make oral or written statements that are understood to express irreverence for sacred things. Laws against blasphemy have disappeared in the United States because of First Amendment protections for religious beliefs and its protections for speech and press.
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The United States and the Holy See enjoy a positive relationship that serves to amplify a global message of peace, hope, and justice.
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    The United States has no established church and constitutionally guarantees religious free exercise
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mexika.orgAssociated With: MexicayotlView the Source
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Margot Adler, Viking Press (1979); Penguin Books, revised edition (2006), 2006Associated With: Feraferia
Sabina Magliocco, Witching Culture
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