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An illuminating account of what Scott Hanson rightly calls 'perhaps the most compelling case of religious and ethnic pluralism in the world.' City of Gods is an important contribution to the literature on religious diversity in America, and an inspiring read for those committed to interfaith cooperation. --Eboo Patel, Founder and President, Interfaith Youth Core This invaluable study of America's most religiously complex community effectively enshrines Flushing as a pioneer of American religious pluralism. Established by English immigrants--religious refugees from both Old and New England--under Dutch patronage, Flushing has offered a home to religious diversity from its seventeenth century beginnings. Although at times contentious, nevertheless it has been a remarkably peaceable experience: and perhaps for this reason unjustly overlooked. Scott Hanson's smart, lovingly researched account illuminates how connections between the local and the international transformed a small town into a globalized urban gateway to America's religious future, while drawing inspiration from its distinctive colonial past. --Evan Haefeli, Texas A&M University City of Gods breathes fresh life into the religious pluralism tradition of theorizing and study. In this compelling--often lyrical--book, R. Scott Hanson sheds new light on urban religious history and offers vibrant, ethnographically grounded insight into the promise and challenges of life in this remarkably diverse religious environment. In our age of inter-religious conflict and immigration controversy, this work is very timely--but City of Gods is also a landmark to which people concerned with religious pluralism will return for many years to come. --Omar M. McRoberts, author of Streets of Glory, Church and Community in a Black Urban Neighborhood

...this is a book that anyone with an interest in religion, immigration, intergroup relations, or urbanization will want to read. * Ethnic and Racial Studies * This invaluable study of America's most religiously complex community effectively enshrines Flushing as a pioneer of American religious pluralism. Established by English immigrants-religious refugees from both Old and New England -under Dutch patronage, Flushing has offered a home to religious diversity from its seventeenth-century beginnings. Scott Hanson's smart, lovingly researched account illuminates how connections between the local and the international transformed a small town into a globalized urban gateway to America's religious future, while drawing inspiration from its distinctive colonial past. -- -Evan Haefeli * author of New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty * An illuminating account of what Scott Hanson rightly calls `perhaps the most compelling case of religious and ethnic pluralism in the world.' City of Gods is an important contribution to the literature on religious diversity in America, and an inspiring read for those committed to interfaith cooperation. -- -Eboo Patel * Founder and President, Interfaith Youth Core * Minutely detailed. . . a 'case study' of the promises and drawbacks of pluralism. * -The New York Times * [an] intimate portrait of lived religion. . . inspiring . . . deserves a place alongside Robert Orsi's The Madonna of 115th Street. * -Publishers Weekly, Starred Review * Flushing, Queens, is surely one of the most religiously diverse places on the planet today. Scott Hanson's study shows how it got this way. This deeply researched and thickly described account of the gods of Flushing makes an important contribution to the history of immigration after the Hart-Celler Act of 1965 and to the study of American urban religions. City of Gods is as well a timely and necessary contribution to the public debate about the nature of American civilization. -- -Robert Orsi * author of The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950 * Through this narrative, the reader gets close to battlers for religious freedom, will see immigration not as an issue but in a story of people, and come to regard pluralism anew, not as a philosophical analysis of diversity but instead as the perplexing and yet promising story of how people of different faiths share some features of a common life. -- -Martin E. Marty * from the Foreword * City of Gods breathes fresh life into the religious pluralism tradition of theorizing and study. In this compelling-often lyrical-book, R. Scott Hanson sheds new light on urban religious history and offers vibrant, ethnographically grounded insight into the promise and challenges of life in this remarkably diverse religious environment. In our age of inter-religious conflict and immigration controversy, this work is very timely-but City of Gods is also a landmark to which people concerned with religious pluralism will return for many years to come. -- -Omar M. McRoberts * author of Streets of Glory, Church and Community in a Black Urban Neighborhood *

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An illuminating account of what Scott Hansen rightly calls 'perhaps the most compelling case of religious and ethnic pluralism in the world.' City of Gods is an important contribution to the literature on religious diversity in America, and an inspiring read for those committed to interfaith cooperation. --Eboo Patel, Founder and President, Interfaith Youth Core This invaluable study of America's most religiously complex community effectively enshrines Flushing as a pioneer of American religious pluralism. Established by English immigrants--religious refugees from both Old and New England--under Dutch patronage, Flushing has offered a home to religious diversity from its seventeenth century beginnings. Although at times contentious, nevertheless it has been a remarkably peaceable experience: and perhaps for this reason unjustly overlooked. Scott Hanson's smart, lovingly researched account illuminates how connections between the local and the international transformed a small town into a globalized urban gateway to America's religious future, while drawing inspiration from its distinctive colonial past. --Evan Haefeli, Texas A&M University

This invaluable study of America's most religiously complex community effectively enshrines Flushing as a pioneer of American religious pluralism. Established by English immigrants-religious refugees from both Old and New England -under Dutch patronage, Flushing has offered a home to religious diversity from its seventeenth-century beginnings. Scott Hanson's smart, lovingly researched account illuminates how connections between the local and the international transformed a small town into a globalized urban gateway to America's religious future, while drawing inspiration from its distinctive colonial past. -- -Evan Haefeli * author of New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty * An illuminating account of what Scott Hanson rightly calls `perhaps the most compelling case of religious and ethnic pluralism in the world.' City of Gods is an important contribution to the literature on religious diversity in America, and an inspiring read for those committed to interfaith cooperation. -- -Eboo Patel * Founder and President, Interfaith Youth Core * Minutely detailed. . . a 'case study' of the promises and drawbacks of pluralism. * -The New York Times * [an] intimate portrait of lived religion. . . inspiring . . . deserves a place alongside Robert Orsi's The Madonna of 115th Street. * -Publishers Weekly, Starred Review * Flushing, Queens, is surely one of the most religiously diverse places on the planet today. Scott Hanson's study shows how it got this way. This deeply researched and thickly described account of the gods of Flushing makes an important contribution to the history of immigration after the Hart-Celler Act of 1965 and to the study of American urban religions. City of Gods is as well a timely and necessary contribution to the public debate about the nature of American civilization. -- -Robert Orsi * author of The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950 * Through this narrative, the reader gets close to battlers for religious freedom, will see immigration not as an issue but in a story of people, and come to regard pluralism anew, not as a philosophical analysis of diversity but instead as the perplexing and yet promising story of how people of different faiths share some features of a common life. -- -Martin E. Marty * from the Foreword * City of Gods breathes fresh life into the religious pluralism tradition of theorizing and study. In this compelling-often lyrical-book, R. Scott Hanson sheds new light on urban religious history and offers vibrant, ethnographically grounded insight into the promise and challenges of life in this remarkably diverse religious environment. In our age of inter-religious conflict and immigration controversy, this work is very timely-but City of Gods is also a landmark to which people concerned with religious pluralism will return for many years to come. -- -Omar M. McRoberts * author of Streets of Glory, Church and Community in a Black Urban Neighborhood *

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R. Scott Hanson is a Lecturer in History at the University of Pennsylvania and an Affiliate of the Pluralism Project at Harvard University.

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