City of Gods : Religious Freedom, Immigration, and Pluralism in Flushing, Queens /

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City of Gods is a history and ethnography of Flushing, Queens in New York City. An important site in colonial America for its place in the history of religious freedom, Flushing is now perhaps the most striking case of religious and ethnic pluralism in the world--and an ideal place to explore how Am...

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Main Author: Hanson, R. Scott (Richard Scott), 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Empire States Editions, an imprint of Fordham University Press, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Religious pluralism.
Religion.
Immigrants > Religious life.
Freedom of religion.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
Liberte religieuse > New York (État) > New York.
Religious pluralism > New York (State) > New York.
Immigrants > Religious life > New York (State) > New York.
Freedom of religion > New York (State) > New York.
New York (State) > New York > Flushing.
New York (State) > New York.
Flushing (New York, N.Y.) > Religion.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:City of Gods is a history and ethnography of Flushing, Queens in New York City. An important site in colonial America for its place in the history of religious freedom, Flushing is now perhaps the most striking case of religious and ethnic pluralism in the world--and an ideal place to explore how America's long experiment with religious freedom, immigration, and religious pluralism began and continues.
Item Description:Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Chicago, 2002).
Physical Description:1 online resource (336 pages).
ISBN:9780823271634

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