ISBN:
9781479814275
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9781479894178 (Sekundärausgabe)
Language:
English
Pages:
286 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781479894178
Edition:
[Online-Ausg.]
Series Statement:
Early American Places
DDC:
277.471081
Keywords:
Kirchengeschichte 1787-1847
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Gesellschaft
;
Konfession
;
New York, NY
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Online-Publikation
Abstract:
In the fifty years after the Constitution wassigned in 1787, New York City grew from a port town of 30,000 to a metropolisof over half a million residents. This rapid development transformed a oncetightknit community and its religious experience. These effects were felt byTrinity Episcopal Church, which had presented itself as a uniting influence inNew York, that connected all believers in social unity in the late colonialera. As the city grew larger, more impersonal, and socially divided, churchesreformed around race and class-based neighborhoods. Trinity's original visionof uniting the commu...
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Online-Ausg.:
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