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1 online resource. |
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Early American places |
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Early American places.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Print version record. |
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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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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. |
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New York (N.Y.) -- Church history -- 18th century.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Church history -- 19th century.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Church history -- 18th century.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Church history -- 19th century.
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Religion.
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Philosophy & Religion.
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Christianity.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
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New York (State) -- New York
https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRvQh7864Jh4rDGBFDWc
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1700-1899
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Church history
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Print version: Bulthuis, Kyle T. Four Steeples over the City Streets : Religion and Society in New York's Early Republic Congregations. New York : NYU Press, ©2014 9781479814275 |
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9781479894178 (electronic bk.) |
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1479894176 (electronic bk.) |
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9781479814275 (cl ; alk. paper) |
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147981427X |
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9781479831340 |
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1479831344 |
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AU@ 000056047954 |
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AU@ 000067632042 |
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GBVCP 829807829 |
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