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

Four Steeples over the City Streets : : Religion and Society in New York's Early Republic Congregations / / Kyle T. Bulthuis.

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Tells the diverse story of four congregations in New York City as they navigated the social and political changes of the late eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. In the fifty years after the Constitution was signed in 1787, New York City grew from a port town of 30,000 to a metropolis of over h...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter NYUP / FUP Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Bulthuis, Kyle T.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Early American Places ; 15
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: the pursuit of religious, racial, and social unity in an early republic metropolis
  • 1. The 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

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