Co-produced by FRONTLINE and AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, God in America will cover over five hundred years of American religious history, from the voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492 through the 2008 election, exploring the potent and complex interaction between religion and democracy in the United States, the origins of the American concept of religious liberty and the often controversial evolution of that ideal in the courts and the political arena, and the free-wheeling America religious marketplace, fueled by waves of new immigrant faiths and a ceaseless spirit of religious innovation