ISBN: 9780226854540 - evangelical gotham: religion and the making of new york city, 1783–1860 (historical studies of urban america) (9 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A portrait of born-again Protestantism in New York City from the American Revolution to the Civil War. At first glance, evangelical and Gotham seem like an odd pair. What does a movement of pious converts and reformers have to do with a city notoriously full of temptation and sin More than you might think, says Kyle B. Roberts, who argues that religion must be considered alongside immigration, commerce, and real estate scarcity as one of the forces that shaped the New York City we know today. In Evangelical Gotham, Roberts explores the role of the urban evangelical community in the development of New York between the American Revolution and the Civil War. As developers prepared to open new neighborhoods uptown, evangelicals stood ready to build meetinghouses. As the city's financial center emerged and solidified, evangelicals capitalized on the resultant wealth, technology, and resources to expand their missionary and benevolent causes. When they began to feel that the city's morals had degenerated, evangelicals turned to temperance, Sunday school, prayer meetings, antislavery causes, and urban missions to reform their neighbors. The result of these efforts was Evangelical Gotham--a complicated and contradictory world whose influence spread far beyond the shores of Manhattan.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Evangelical Gotham | Religion and the Making of New York City, 1783-1860 | Kyle B. Roberts | Taschenbuch | Historical Studies of Urban America | Englisch | 2026 | The University of Chicago Press | EAN 9780226854540 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu. …