Author: Lewis Strong Judd
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record
Author: Richard Henry Greene
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Publisher:
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Writings on American History
Author:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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God in Gotham
Author: Jon Butler
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674249720
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
A master historian traces the flourishing of organized religion in Manhattan between the 1880s and the 1960s, revealing how faith adapted and thrived in the supposed capital of American secularism. In Gilded Age Manhattan, Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant leaders agonized over the fate of traditional religious practice amid chaotic and multiplying pluralism. Massive immigration, the anonymity of urban life, and modernity’s rationalism, bureaucratization, and professionalization seemingly eviscerated the sense of religious community. Yet fears of religion’s demise were dramatically overblown. Jon Butler finds a spiritual hothouse in the supposed capital of American secularism. By the 1950s Manhattan was full of the sacred. Catholics, Jews, and Protestants peppered the borough with sanctuaries great and small. Manhattan became a center of religious publishing and broadcasting and was home to august spiritual reformers from Reinhold Niebuhr to Abraham Heschel, Dorothy Day, and Norman Vincent Peale. A host of white nontraditional groups met in midtown hotels, while black worshippers gathered in Harlem’s storefront churches. Though denied the ministry almost everywhere, women shaped the lived religion of congregations, founded missionary societies, and, in organizations such as the Zionist Hadassah, fused spirituality and political activism. And after 1945, when Manhattan’s young families rushed to New Jersey and Long Island’s booming suburbs, they recreated the religious institutions that had shaped their youth. God in Gotham portrays a city where people of faith engaged modernity rather than foundered in it. Far from the world of “disenchantment” that sociologist Max Weber bemoaned, modern Manhattan actually birthed an urban spiritual landscape of unparalleled breadth, suggesting that modernity enabled rather than crippled religion in America well into the 1960s.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674249720
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
A master historian traces the flourishing of organized religion in Manhattan between the 1880s and the 1960s, revealing how faith adapted and thrived in the supposed capital of American secularism. In Gilded Age Manhattan, Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant leaders agonized over the fate of traditional religious practice amid chaotic and multiplying pluralism. Massive immigration, the anonymity of urban life, and modernity’s rationalism, bureaucratization, and professionalization seemingly eviscerated the sense of religious community. Yet fears of religion’s demise were dramatically overblown. Jon Butler finds a spiritual hothouse in the supposed capital of American secularism. By the 1950s Manhattan was full of the sacred. Catholics, Jews, and Protestants peppered the borough with sanctuaries great and small. Manhattan became a center of religious publishing and broadcasting and was home to august spiritual reformers from Reinhold Niebuhr to Abraham Heschel, Dorothy Day, and Norman Vincent Peale. A host of white nontraditional groups met in midtown hotels, while black worshippers gathered in Harlem’s storefront churches. Though denied the ministry almost everywhere, women shaped the lived religion of congregations, founded missionary societies, and, in organizations such as the Zionist Hadassah, fused spirituality and political activism. And after 1945, when Manhattan’s young families rushed to New Jersey and Long Island’s booming suburbs, they recreated the religious institutions that had shaped their youth. God in Gotham portrays a city where people of faith engaged modernity rather than foundered in it. Far from the world of “disenchantment” that sociologist Max Weber bemoaned, modern Manhattan actually birthed an urban spiritual landscape of unparalleled breadth, suggesting that modernity enabled rather than crippled religion in America well into the 1960s.
The United States Catalog
Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
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Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
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Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher:
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
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Publisher:
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
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Catalogue of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher:
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Religious Books, 1876-1982
Author:
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1328
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1328
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Annual Report of the American Historical Association
Author: American Historical Association
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Category : Historiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Historiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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The United States Catalog
Author: Eleanor E. Hawkins
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2222
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2222
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