Part 7: The Making of the Postsecular City. The Manhattan Evangelicals in the year 2000: a new era
Religion was making a comeback. Name a religion and it had believers in the city, sometimes a lot of them.
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Posted by Tony Carnes | Dec 17, 2010 | Evangelical Protestants, Manhattan, Postsecular City |
Religion was making a comeback. Name a religion and it had believers in the city, sometimes a lot of them.
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In 1978 the number of evangelical church plants jumped to three times greater than the average number planted per year for the previous decades.
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However, at its lowest point, the city opted to rehabilitate itself. Often, outsiders played...
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Lower East Side, Manhattan. Photo by A Journey through NYC religions There was not much happiness...
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The decline of the evangelicals was peculiar to a fifty year period in the mid-20th Century within the city’s almost four hundred year history. Evangelicalism predominated in the 19th and early 20th Century.
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