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

• Tác giả: Kyle T Bulthuis
• ISBN-13: 978-1479894178
• Thông tin xuất bản: New York : New York University Press, 2014.
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (320 pages).
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 462146
• Chủ đề: 1. New York (N.Y.) -- Church history -- 18th century; 2. New York (N.Y.) -- Church history -- 19th century; 3. Christianity; 4. Philosophy & Religion; 5. RELIGION--Christianity; 6. Religion

Tóm tắt

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.