Over three nights next week, PBS will turn the history of religion in America into a series of rousing dramas. The show will spotlight characters, movements and ideas that have shaped a country whose people, from the beginning, have claimed a special relationship with the Almighty.

But the emblematic stories in "God in America" - a joint production of "Frontline" and "American Experience" - also make it clear that conflict has been a constant in religious America, too, with battles in every age to define a country committed to both liberty and social order.

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