Four Steeples over the City Streets : : Religion and Society in New York’s Early Republic Congregations / / Kyle T. Bulthuis.
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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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press,, [2014] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Early American places.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (286 p.) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front matter
- 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