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1 online resource. |
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text file |
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Early American places
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Early American places.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Pursuit of Religious, Racial, and Social Unity in an Early Republic Metropolis -- 1. 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
New York (N.Y.) -- Church history -- 18th century.
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National Book Committee. |
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Church history. |
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18th century |
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New York (State) -- New York. |
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New York (N.Y.) -- Church history -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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1700-1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Church history.
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Print version: Bulthuis, Kyle T. Four Steeples over the City Streets : Religion and Society in New York's Early Republic Congregations. New York : NYU Press, ©2014 9781479814275 |
| ISBN |
9781479894178 (electronic book) |
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1479894176 (electronic book) |
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9781479814275 (cl ; alkaline paper) |
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147981427X |
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