{"product_id":"god-in-gotham-by-jon-butler-9780674292215","title":"God in Gotham","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Are you there, God? It's me, Manhattan. Butler argues that far from being a Sodom on the Hudson, New York was a centre of religious dynamism throughout the 20th century.\"  \n- \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"What a pleasure it is to take a tour of Manhattan's sacred past led by one of the nation's preeminent religious historians.\"  \n- \u003ci\u003eChristianity Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A masterwork by a master historian \u003ci\u003eGod in Gotham\u003c\/i\u003e should be an instant classic.\"  \n- Jonathan D. Sarna, author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Judaism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Gilded Age Manhattan, religious leaders agonised over the fate of traditional faith practice amid chaotic and sometimes terrifying change. Massive immigration, urban anonymity, and the bureaucratisation of modern life tore at the binding fibres of religious community.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYet fears of the demise of religion were dramatically overblown. Jon Butler finds a spiritual hothouse in the supposed capital of American secularism as Catholics, Jews, and Protestants peppered the borough with sanctuaries. A centre of religious publishing and broadcasting, by the 1950s it was home to Reinhold Niebuhr, Abraham Heschel, Dorothy Day, and Norman Vincent Peale. While white spiritual seekers sometimes met in midtown hotels, black worshippers gathered in Harlem's storefront churches. Though denied the ministry almost everywhere, women shaped congregations, founded missionary societies, and fused spirituality and political activism. \u003ci\u003eGod in Gotham\u003c\/i\u003e portrays a city where people of faith embraced modernity and thrived.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000627970284,"sku":"9780674292215","price":40.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/1424033482428.jpg?v=1763291149","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/god-in-gotham-by-jon-butler-9780674292215","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}