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Four steeples over the city streets : religion and society in New York's early republic congregations / Kyle T. Bulthuis
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Buch (Online)Sprache: Englisch Reihen: Early American placesVerlag: New York : New York University Press, 2014Beschreibung: 1 Online-RessourceISBN:- 9781479894178
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Zusammenfassung: In the fifty years after the Constitution wassigned in 1787, New York City grew from a port town of 30,000 to a metropolisof over half a million residents. This rapid development transformed a oncetightknit community and its religious experience. These effects were felt byTrinity Episcopal Church, which had presented itself as a uniting influence inNew York, that connected all believers in social unity in the late colonialera. As the city grew larger, more impersonal, and socially divided, churchesreformed around race and class-based neighborhoods. Trinity's original visionof uniting the commuPPN: PPN: 1916212670Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Pursuit of Religious, Racial, and Social Unity in an Early Republic Metropolis -- The Foundations of Religious Establishment: The Colonial Era -- Religious Establishment Challenged, Destroyed, and Re-formed: The Revolutionary Era -- Creating Merchant Churches: The 1790s -- Stepping Up and Out: White Women in the Church, 1800-1820 -- Gendering Race in the Church: Black Male Benevolence, 1800-1820 -- Preacher Power: Congregational Political Struggles as Social Conflicts, 1810-1830 -- Neighborly Refinement and Withdrawal: 1820-1840 -- Reaping the Whirlwind: Immigration and Riot, 1830-1850 -- Conclusion. Elusive Unity: City Churches in a Romantic Age, after 1840 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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