Answer the following questions based on the passage of chapter 3 religion 1. What religions are practiced in America? By what percentage of people? Of what race or national origin? 2. What has the most profound effect on the development of the religious climate? 3. What are the differences between Roman Catholic Church and Protestantism, according to the passage? 4. What happened within Protestantism after it broke away from the Catholic church? 5. How did the denominations treat each other in the 1600s? 6. What happened as a result of the religious persecution in Europe? 7. What does the U.S. constitution say about religion? 8. Why do protestants traditionally encourage self-improvement? 9. What is the most dramatic example of the idea of self-improvement? 10. What is the most widely respected form of self-improvement in the United States? Why so? 11. What is the other reason that Americans value material wealth so much? (chapter 2) 12. What made an important contribution to the industrial growth of the United States? 13. What is self-discipline? 14. What is the Protestant work ethic or the Puritan work ethic? 15. What is volunteerism or humanitarianism? 16. What did 911 do to the American patriotism? 17. What is the national religion? 18. What is the main function of the national religion? 19. What might be the harmful effects of the national religion? 20. What are the two forces at work on religion is the U.S. today? 21. What are the debates between evangelicals, or religious conservatives and secular liberals? 22. What American value has allowed religious pluralism to coexist with religious polarization? 23. What does “being spiritual” mean? Two more developments? 24. What does religious freedom mean?