Title Built with faith : Italian American imagination and Catholic material culture in New York City / Joseph Sciorra

Edition First edition Published Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2015] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xlii, 262 pages) : illustrations, maps Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies Supplement Contents 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-250) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Catholic Church -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 21st century Catholic Church -- New York (State) -- New York -- Customs and practices Catholic Church -- History -- 21st century. Catholic Church -- Customs and practices. SUBJECT Catholic Church fast Subject 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. Material culture -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Christianity. Religion. Philosophy & Religion. New York (State) -- New York Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2014024542 ISBN 1621901319 9781621901310

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