Jon Butler's God in Gotham: The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan is not a book, Butler would be the first to tell us, that anyone should have expected to read (or write). The equation of Manhattan with modernity and modernity with secularization has long been hardwired into the scholarly and popular imagination. Butler wants to disrupt these circuits. It is not that Manhattan was not secular but rather that religion flourished there beyond all expectations between the late nineteenth century and 1960.

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乔恩·巴特勒的《哥谭之神：现代曼哈顿的宗教奇迹：开场白》论坛

乔恩·巴特勒哥谭的上帝：现代曼哈顿的宗教奇迹不是一本书，巴特勒会第一个告诉我们，任何人都应该期望阅读（或写作）。曼哈顿与现代性和现代性与世俗化的等式长期以来一直被固定在学术界和大众的想象中。巴特勒想破坏这些电路。并不是说曼哈顿不是世俗的，而是宗教在 19 世纪末到 1960 年间的盛行超出了所有人的预期。