Four Steeples Over the City Streets: Religion and Society in New Yorkas Early Republic Congregations

by Kyle T Bulthuis and Bulthuis

Tells the diverse story of four congregations in New York City as they navigated the social and political changes of the late eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries.

In the fifty years after the Constitution was signed in 1787, New York City grew from a port town of 30,000 to a metropolis of over half a million residents. This rapid development transformed a once tightknit community and its religious experience. Including four churches...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479831344
• ISBN13: 9781479831340
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"