Built with faith : Italian American imagination and Catholic material culture in New York City

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sciorra, Joseph (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2015]
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies Supplement.
Subjects:	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. Catholic Church 2000-2099 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 History
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Table of 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.