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God in Gotham : the miracle of religion in modern Manhattan / Jon Butler.
Van Pelt Library BL2527.N7 B88 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Butler, Jon, 1940- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National Book Committee.
- God.
- Religion.
- New York (N.Y.)--Religion.
- New York (N.Y.).
- New York (N.Y.)--Religious life and customs.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Physical Description:
- 308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- "Perhaps nothing has ever been so frightening to people of faith as "the modern." Pluralistic and rationalizing, modernity would seem the antithesis of traditional religious practice. But as historian Jon Butler shows, even Manhattan, the supposed capital of American secularism, has consistently proven a place steeped in devotion"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Spiritual Terror and Sacred Awe in the Capital of American Secularism
- 2. Organizing God
- 3. Sacralizing the Urban Landscape
- 4. Modernizing God in Jim Crow Manhattan
- 5. God's Urban Hothouse.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674045682
- 0674045688
- OCLC:
- 1145092497
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