Monday, October 11, Parts 1 and 2
Episode One: “A New Adam”The first hour of God in America explores the origins of America’s unique religious landscape--how the New World challenged and changed the faiths the first European settlers brought with them.
Episode Two: "A New Eden"Hour two considers 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.
God in America: New AdamIn New Mexico, Franciscan monks met resistance from native pueblos in the Revolt of 1680
Tuesday, October 12, Parts 3 and 4
Episode Three, "A Nation Reborn" Hour three explores 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.
Episode Four, "A New Light" During the 19th century, the forces of modernity challenged traditional faith and drove a wedge between liberal and conservative believers.
Wednesday, October 13, Parts 5 and 6
Episode Five, "Soul of a Nation" Hour Five explores the post-World War II era, when rising evangelist Billy Graham tried to inspire a religious revival that fused faith with patriotism in a Cold War battle with "Godless Communism."
Episode Six, "Of God and Caesar"The final hour of God in America brings the series into the present day, exploring the religious and political aspirations of conservative evangelicals’ moral crusade over divisive social issues like abortion and gay marriage.
God in America, beginning Monday, October 11 at 8 p.m.on PBS-HD.
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