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Four Steeples over the City Streets : Religion and Society in New York's Early Republic Congregations /

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, w...

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Main Author: Bulthuis, Kyle T.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 commu.
Physical Description:1 online resource (320 pages).
ISBN:9781479894178