num_pages: 440
description: Is New York a post-secular city? Massive immigration and cultural changes have created an increasingly complex social landscape in which religious life plays a dynamic role. Yet the magnitude of religion's impact on New York's social life has gone unacknowledged.New York Glory gathers together for the first time the best research on religion in contemporary New York City. It includes contributors from every major research project on religion in New York to provide a comprehensive look at the current state of religion in the city. Moving beyond broad surveys into specific case studies of communities and institutions it provides a window onto the diversity of religious life in New York.From Italian Catholics Mormons Muslims and Russian Jews to Zen Buddhists Rastafarians and Pentecostal Latinas New York Glory both captures the richness of religious life in New York City and provides an important foundation for our understanding of the current and future shape of religion in America.
language: English
title: New York Glory: Religions in the City
publisher: New York University Press