LA TRANSFORMACIÓN DE LAS MENTALIDADES CRISTIANAS Y LA EVOLUCIÓN DE LAS ORGANIZACIONES ECLESIÁSTICAS ESTADOUNIDENSES (1840-1945).

Like the Christian belief system, the mentalities of the multiple Christian communities established in the United States have been changing over time due to very different factors: popular manifestations of religiosity, alterations in the ecclesiastical organization motivated by social and cultural fragmentation, the claims of confessional minorities, doctrinal reforms, rigorous reactions, personalist leadership in evangelization and the effects of the new dynamics of electronic communication. This article tries to establish a period of great transformation at a social and cultural level, which stretches from the great transformation of the decade before the Civil War until the end of World War II. Broadly speaking, almost all the ecclesiastical organizations linked to the ramification of Reformed Protestantism expanded geographically and demographically, and this trend also led to an intense propagation of the moral principles and biblical interpretations of this Protestant confessional bloc. On the other hand, the ecclesiastical organizations linked to the main line of Protestantism lost an important part of their social mass while they retained their social influence and their capacity for cultural leadership. The institutional complexity and diversity of Christian thought, from different conjunctural approaches, are addressed in all the thematic sections of this study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]