New York Glory: Religions in the City: 4

“In New York Glory the usually peripheral becomes foreground, and the core background.”– “Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion”

“The editors are to be encouraged for gathering together original material from some of the most current research on relgions in the city.”– “American Jewish History”

“These two edited volumes bring together a variety of authors to offer a rear combination: they focus on religion in urban America and on particular cities, namely New York City and Chicago…They are necessary reading for anyone who seeks to understand this area.”– “Sociology of Religion”

“This helpful sourcebook strives to be ‘anatomically correct’ to the religious demography of New York, providing more on Catholics and Jews, Hispanics and African Americans, than Buddhists, Methodists, or New Age devotees. There’s virtue in this approach, and the texture is rich. If you think of New York as a monument to secularityor as positively the work of the Devilthis book will make you think again.”–John Stratton Hawley, Barnard College, Columbia University

Anna Karpathakis is Assistant Professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Kingsborough Community College, C.U.N.Y.