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New York City and the Production of Sacred Space

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2021

Wallace Best
Wallace Best*
Affiliation:
Hughes-Rogers Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University
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Jon Butler's God in Gotham: The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan affirms what historians of religion have long known and some urban historians have begun to discover—that few things in American history have survived so well as religion. Political moments and social movements have come and gone. Fashions have fallen out of favor; fads have faded. But that thing that we call “religion”—however defined, theologically, experientially, or institutionally—has survived, even thrived, particularly in American cities and perhaps most particularly in America's largest city, New York.

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Church History , Volume 90 , Issue 1 , March 2021 , pp. 151 - 154
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of American Society of Church History

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