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# God in America: One: A New Adam
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/frontline/specials/frontline-god-in-america-one-a-new-adam/
- Published: 2024-04-02T22:53:10.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-20T15:54:37.000Z
- Description: How the New World challenged and changed the faiths brought by the first European settlers
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: FRONTLINE, #ZZZ_Show_8d45e56c-70b3-4c33-a2eb-1c2ac36ca879, #v1.7, #ZZZ_Special_0842c325-5bfa-4520-a724-ebf99944d279, #special

In New Mexico, Pueblo spirituality collides with the Franciscan missionaries' Catholicism. In New England, Puritan leader John Winthrop confronts religious dissenters within his ranks. And a new message of spiritual rebirth from evangelical preachers sweeps through the colonies, upending traditional religious authority and kindling a rebellious spirit that converges with the American Revolution.