Built with faith : Italian American imagination and Catholic material culture in New York City / Joseph Sciorra.
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TextPublisher: Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2015]Copyright date: �2015Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (xlii, 262 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 1621901319
- 9781621901310
- Catholic Church -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 21st century
- Catholic Church -- New York (State) -- New York -- Customs and practices
- Catholic Church
- Material culture -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
- Italian American Catholics -- Religious life -- New York (State) -- New York
- Italian American Catholics -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social life
- Material culture -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
- RELIGION -- Christianity -- Catholic
- New York (State) -- New York
- Christianity
- Religion
- Philosophy & Religion
- 2000-2099
- 282.089/5107471 23
- BX1407.I8 S38 2015eb
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.
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