God in Gotham by Jon Butler - 9780674045682

Name: God in Gotham by Jon Butler - 9780674045682
Brand: Harvard University Press

Harvard University Press

God in GothamThe Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan\nAuthor(s): Jon Butler\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Harvard University Press, United States\nImprint: Harvard University Press\nISBN-13: 9780674045682, 978-0674045682\nSynopsis\nA 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.\n\nIn 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 modernitys rationalism, bureaucratization, and professionalization seemingly eviscerated the sense of religious community.\n\nYet fears of religions demise were dramatically overblown. Jon Butler finds a spiritual hothouse in the supposed capital of American secularism. By the 1950s Manhattan was full of the sacred. Catholics, Jews, and Prote.