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Four steeples over the city streets : religion and society in New York's early republic congregations / Kyle T. Bulthuis.

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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, w...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Bulthuis, Kyle T.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2014.
Series:Early American places.
Subjects:
New York (N.Y.) > Church history > 18th century.
New York (N.Y.) > Church history > 19th century.
New York (State) > New York
1700-1899
Church history
Table of 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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