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Four Steeples over the City Streets : Religion and Society in New York's Early Republic Congregations /
Tells the diverse story of four congregations in New York City as they navigated the social and political changes of the late eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. In the fifty years after the Constitution was signed in 1787, New York City grew from a port town of 30,000 to a metropolis of over h...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
New York University Press,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Early American Places ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: the pursuit of religious, racial, and social unity in an early republic metropolis
- 1. The foundations of religious establishment: the colonial era
- 2. Religious establishment challenged, destroyed, and re-formed: the revolutionary era
- 3. Creating merchant churches: the 1790s
- 4. Stepping up and out: white women in the church, 1800-1820
- 5. Gendering race in the church: black male benevolence, 1800-1820
- 6. Preacher power: congregational political struggles as social conflicts, 1810-1830
- 7. Neighborly refinement and withdrawal: 1820-1840
- 8. 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