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God in Gotham : The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan by Jon Butler is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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A master historian traces the flourishing of organized religion in Manhattan between the 1880s and the 1960s, revealing how faith adapted and thrived in the supposed capital of American secularism.In Gilded Age Manhattan, Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant leaders agonized over the fate of traditional religious practice amid chaotic and multiplying pluralism. Massive immigration, the anonymity of urban life, and modernity's rationalism, bureaucratization, and professionalization seemingly eviscera
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- Author
- Jon Butler
- Publisher
- Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674045682
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Religion, American Studies
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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