Jon T Butler
Biographic Data
| ID | 4789563 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jon T Butler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jon T |
| FAMILY NAME | Butler |
| SIGNATURE | BUTLER J T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
God in Gotham: The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan
A master historian traces the flourishing of organized religion in Manhattan between the 1880s and the 1960s, revealing how faith adapted and thrived in the supposed capital of American secularism. In Gilded Age Manhattan, Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant leaders agonized over the fate of traditional religious practice amid chaotic and multiplying pluralism. Massive immigration, the anonymity of urban life, and modernity’s rationalism, bureaucrat…
Three Minds, Three Books, Three Years: Reinhold Niebuhr, Perry Miller, and Mordecai Kaplan on Religion
T hree truly exceptional books appeared in the early 1930sexceptional not only for their absolute brilliance but for emphasizing religion in history as well as modern times. In 1932, Reinhold Niebuhr published Moral Man and Immoral Society, which shook liberal Christianity to its core with its powerful denunciation of naive faith in optimism and progress and its blunt assertion of the reality of evil still darkening human achievement. A year late…
Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans
Becoming America: The Revolution before 1776
Beyond a Christian Commonwealth: The Protestant Quarrel with the American Republic, 1830-1860
Journal Article Beyond a Christian Commonwealth: The Protestant Quarrel with the American Republic, 1830–1860. By Mark Y. Hanky. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. xii, 210 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2121-7.) Get access Jon Butler Jon Butler Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Pages 226–227, ht…
The Rude Hand of Innovation: Religion and Social Order in Albany, New York, 1652-1836
Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People
Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People
Journal Article Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People. By Jon Butler. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990. xiv + 360 pp. $29.50.) Get access Ruth Bloch Ruth Bloch University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1332, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078280 Published: 01 March 1991
Training God's Army: The American Bible School, 1880-1940
Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People
Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People
Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People
Masters & Slaves in the House of the Lord: Race and Religion in the American South, 1740-1870
Shadow on the Church: Southwestern Evanelical Religion and the Issue of Slavery, 1783-1860
Power, Authority, and the Origins of American Denominational Order: The English Churches in the Delaware Valley, 1680-1730
The People's Faith, in Europe and America: Four Centuries in Review
The People's Faith, in Europe and America: Four Centuries in Review
Power, Authority, and the Origins of American Denominational Order: The English Churches in the Delaware Valley, 1680-1730
Shadow on the Church: Southwestern Evanelical Religion and the Issue of Slavery, 1783-1860
Masters & Slaves in the House of the Lord: Race and Religion in the American South, 1740-1870
Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People
Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People
Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People
Journal Article Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People. By Jon Butler. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990. xiv + 360 pp. $29.50.) Get access Ruth Bloch Ruth Bloch University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1332, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078280 Published: 01 March 1991
Training God's Army: The American Bible School, 1880-1940
Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People
Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People
The Rude Hand of Innovation: Religion and Social Order in Albany, New York, 1652-1836
Beyond a Christian Commonwealth: The Protestant Quarrel with the American Republic, 1830-1860
Journal Article Beyond a Christian Commonwealth: The Protestant Quarrel with the American Republic, 1830–1860. By Mark Y. Hanky. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. xii, 210 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2121-7.) Get access Jon Butler Jon Butler Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Pages 226–227, ht…
Becoming America: The Revolution before 1776
Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans
Three Minds, Three Books, Three Years: Reinhold Niebuhr, Perry Miller, and Mordecai Kaplan on Religion
T hree truly exceptional books appeared in the early 1930sexceptional not only for their absolute brilliance but for emphasizing religion in history as well as modern times. In 1932, Reinhold Niebuhr published Moral Man and Immoral Society, which shook liberal Christianity to its core with its powerful denunciation of naive faith in optimism and progress and its blunt assertion of the reality of evil still darkening human achievement. A year late…
God in Gotham: The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan
A master historian traces the flourishing of organized religion in Manhattan between the 1880s and the 1960s, revealing how faith adapted and thrived in the supposed capital of American secularism. In Gilded Age Manhattan, Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant leaders agonized over the fate of traditional religious practice amid chaotic and multiplying pluralism. Massive immigration, the anonymity of urban life, and modernity’s rationalism, bureaucrat…
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