...This chapter considers the achievements of evangelicals in New York City at midcentury. It argues that Evangelical New Yorkers did nothing less than make the city between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Their systematic strategy of aggressively building in newly opening neighborhoods put...

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...This book has focused not on evangelical political action but on evangelical cultural identity. While lacking a specific political agenda, even bland, seemingly innocuous Christian media still have a political undertone. Their very success and increased visibility in nonreligious retail venues...

...This chapter examines how developments reshaping New York in the 1840s and 1850s affected evangelical congregations. Evangelical competition in a dynamic and expansive spiritual marketplace, aggressive church-building strategies, and an embrace of a new rhetoric of domesticity contributed...

... requires an appreciation of the emotional resonance of a tight set of moral claims that triggered personal transformations and motivated bold collective action. It requires explaining how slavery managed to shock evangelicals in the 1830s in the ways it did and also how it could not just a generation...

... and apocalyptic films have sought out wide audiences beyond the evangelical market. With both kinds of films, as with other kinds of Christian media, it is seen that the wider the desired audience, the more carefully tempered the evangelical message will be. To produce their own countermedia, evangelicals have...

...At first glance, evangelical and Gotham seem like an odd pair. What does a movement of pious converts and reformers have to do with a city notoriously full of temptation and sin? This text argues that religion must be considered alongside immigration, commerce...

...Cheap print gave more people access to instructive, educational, and religious publications, yet concerns about its dangers were expressed by commentators across the political and religious spectrum. Evangelicals were certainly not the only people to be worried, but they were vocal about...

...-purposed religious freedom in an effort to stave off secularism and communism. This “Catholic pivot” also opened the door for contemporary alliances with evangelical Protestants, for whom religious freedom stands not as part of a secular culture of individual choice and social tolerance...

...This chapter looks at the changing religious milieu that enabled Reagan’s religious imaginary to flourish. It provides historical context for understanding the impact of the 1960s and 1970s on American religion and religious institutions. Evangelicals, influenced more by religious media than...

...This introductory chapter discusses the importance of religion in the development of New York City between the American Revolution and the Civil War. New York's evangelical population was never large, but it had an unmistakable influence on urban life and development As developers prepared to open...

...This chapter focuses on the evangelical New Yorkers who experienced a spiritual crossing in the midst of a terrestrial one in the generation following the American Revolution. This period proved one of unprecedented mobility, both voluntary and forced, throughout the Atlantic World. Revolutions...

...This chapter discusses the emergence of evangelical activism in the generation following the American Revolution. New Yorkers depended on state-sponsored institutions, private associations, and denominational support to care for the destitute immediately after the war. Isabella Marshall Graham...

...This chapter discusses the emergence of a “New Missionary Field” in New York City following the War of 1812. Freed from the threat of European encroachment on the continent and flush from wartime profiteering, the city and its spiritual marketplace rebounded quickly, if unevenly. Evangelical...

...This chapter discusses evangelical print culture. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, coalescing an audience around print was the ambition, and the challenge, for evangelicals. Before the American Revolution, itinerant ministers published sermons, journals, and devotional guides...

...This chapter focuses on the work of evangelicals Charles Grandison Finney, Lewis Tappan, and David Hale. Through his liberating message and personal example, Finney appealed to middle-class evangelical businessmen like Lewis Tappan and David Hale, a successful newspaper editor. Finney's linkage...

...This chapter focuses on Phoebe Worrall Palmer, one of one of Evangelical Gotham's most influential theologians, writers, and revivalists in the mid-nineteenth century. Palmer was studiously plain in all aspects of appearance and life. She was quiet and reserved; proffered a rational and biblical...

...This chapter highlights some of today's typical products—youth-targeted straight-to-video series that take secular media genres (the cartoon, the sitcom) and respin them to suit evangelical purposes. These videos have made numerous accommodations to secular culture, ranging from toning down...

... influence on the governmentality of favela territories. Topics such as drug addiction, sex exploitation, and demoniac possessions all come to light in the contentious relationship between Evangelical exorcisms and Afro-Brazilian possessions. Rather than thinking of religion only as an “anti-liberal” project...