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

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

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bulthuis, Kyle T., author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New York University Press [2014]
Colección:Early American places.
Materias:
HISTORY / General.
New York (N.Y.) > Church history > 18th century.
New York (N.Y.) > Church history > 19th century.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009817330906719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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