ABSTRACT
Episcopalians, Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Methodists, and Baptists were the major groups that dominated American cultural and scientific life from the early nineteenth century until the era of World War I. While these denominations lost their cultural hegemony in the decades after World War I, they still reflected the opinions of the majority of the nation’s Protestants. Their relationships with the worlds of science shifted over time and reflected various factors.
