The History of the United States, 2nd Edition Episode 80, Religion in Twentieth-Century America Episode 80, Religion in Twentieth-Century America.

Streaming video - 2003

America is a far more religious society than other Western industrial nations - another example of its exceptionalism. It also tolerated an exotic array of sects and cults, from hippies to the followers of Jim Jones who committed mass suicide in 1978. Religious groups also played a role in the moral-political debates over civil rights, feminism, abortion, homosexuality, and nuclear weapons.