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God in Gotham : the miracle of religion in modern Manhattan / Jon Butler.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020Description: 308 pages ; PICTURESISBN:
  • 9780674045682
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • BL2527 .B88 2020 3
Contents:
Introduction: Are you there, God? -- Spiritual terror and sacred awe in the capital of American secularism -- Organizing God -- Sacralizing the urban landscape -- Modernizing God in Jim Crow Manhattan -- God's urban hothouse -- Conclusion: Moving out, moving on.
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"--
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Introduction: Are you there, God? -- Spiritual terror and sacred awe in the capital of American secularism -- Organizing God -- Sacralizing the urban landscape -- Modernizing God in Jim Crow Manhattan -- God's urban hothouse -- Conclusion: Moving out, moving on.

"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"--

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