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Forum on Jon Butler's God in Gotham: The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan: Introductory Remarks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2021

John McGreevy
John McGreevy*
Affiliation:
Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame
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Extract

Jon Butler's God in Gotham: The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan is not a book, Butler would be the first to tell us, that anyone should have expected to read (or write). The equation of Manhattan with modernity and modernity with secularization has long been hardwired into the scholarly and popular imagination. Butler wants to disrupt these circuits. It is not that Manhattan was not secular but rather that religion flourished there beyond all expectations between the late nineteenth century and 1960.

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Church History , Volume 90 , Issue 1 , March 2021 , pp. 141
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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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References

1 Butler, Jon, God in Gotham: The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Butler, God in Gotham, 7.