Book Review: Evangelical Gotham: Religion and the Making of New York City, 1783-1860

Each issue of Catholic Library World includes approximately 100 book reviews. Reviewer Jay T. Harrison reviewed Kyle Robert's Evangelical Gotham: Religion and the Making of New York City, 1783-1860 (University of Chicago Press, 2016) for the September 2017 issue. Read more about what Harrison deems an "exquisite gem of a book..." that "explains the lesser-known experiences among early Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, and other less organized congregations in the creation of holy spaces in New York neighborhoods during the decades before the Civil War."

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