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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纽约市与神圣空间的生产

乔恩·巴特勒哥谭的上帝：现代曼哈顿的宗教奇迹肯定了宗教历史学家早就知道和一些城市历史学家已经开始发现的东西——美国历史上很少有东西能像宗教一样幸存下来。政治时刻和社会运动来了又去。时尚已经失宠；时尚已经褪色。但是，我们称之为“宗教”的东西——无论在神学、经验或制度上如何定义——都幸存下来，甚至蓬勃发展，尤其是在美国城市，也许尤其是在美国最大的城市纽约。