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

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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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Auteur principal: Bulthuis, Kyle T.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : New York University Press, 2014.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Christianity.
Philosophy & Religion.
Religion.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
New York (N.Y.) > Church history > 19th century.
New York (N.Y.) > Church history > 18th century.
New York (State) > New York.
New York (N.Y.) > Church history > 19th century.
New York (N.Y.) > Church history > 18th century.
Church history.
Electronic books.
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (320 pages).
ISBN:9781479894178

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