God in Gotham issues a challenge: if religion can survive, nay thrive, in Sodom by the Sea, then maybe we need to revise our theory of secularization of the modern world. The book's subtitle articulates its subversive claims: “The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan.” Its alliterative argument suggests a measure of wonder, one of those features of pre-modern life supposedly banished by secularization and the disenchantment of the world.

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奇迹的奇迹：重新思考曼哈顿的宗教

哥谭的上帝提出一个挑战：如果宗教能够在海边的所多玛生存，甚至繁荣，那么也许我们需要修改我们关于现代世界世俗化的理论。这本书的副标题阐明了它的颠覆性主张：“现代曼哈顿的宗教奇迹”。它的头韵式论证暗示了一种奇迹，这是前现代生活的那些特征之一，据说被世俗化和世界的祛魅所消除。