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

by Kyle T Bulthuis and Kyle T. 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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147981427X
• ISBN13: 9781479814275
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"