God in Gotham
Subtitle: The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan
Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
Published: Sep 29, 2020
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780674045682
Description: "Perhaps nothing has ever been so frightening to people of faith as "the modern." Pluralistic and rationalizing, modernity would seem the antithesis of traditional religious practice. But as historian Jon Butler shows, even Manhattan, the supposed capital of American secularism, has consistently proven a place steeped in devotion"--
Notes: Source title: God in Gotham: The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan