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Sciorra, Joseph,

Built with faith : Italian American imagination and Catholic material culture in New York City / Joseph Sciorra. - First edition. - 1 online resource (xlii, 262 pages) : illustrations, maps - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies Supplement. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-250) and index.

Private devotions in public places : the sacred spaces of yard shrines and sidewalk altars -- Imagined places and fragile landscapes : nostalgia and utopia in nativity presepi -- Festive intensification and place consciousness in Christmas house displays -- Multivocality and sacred space : the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Grotto in Rosebank, Staten Island -- "We go where the Italians live": processions as glocal mapping in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.


English.

ISBN: 1621901319 9781621901310

Source: 923315 MIL

LCCN: 2014024542

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Catholic Church--History--New York (State)--New York--21st century.
Catholic Church--Customs and practices.--New York (State)--New York
Catholic Church.

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
2000-2099

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Material culture--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Italian American Catholics--Religious life--New York (State)--New York.
Italian American Catholics--Social life.--New York (State)--New York
Material culture--Religious aspects--Christianity.
RELIGION--Christianity--Catholic.
Christianity.
Religion.
Philosophy & Religion.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
New York (State)--New York.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: BX1407.I8 / S38 2015eb

Dewey Class. No.: 282.089/5107471