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Author Sciorra, Joseph, author.

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

Publication Info. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2015]
©2015

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Location Call No. Status
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  282.08951 S417B    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xlii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject Catholic Church -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 21st century.
Catholic Church -- New York (State) -- New York -- Customs and practices.
Catholic Church. (OCoLC)fst00531720
Material culture -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. (OCoLC)fst02008009
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.
Italiener. (DE-588)4027835-9
Katholik. (DE-588)4163454-8
Religionsausübung. (DE-588)4205115-0
Volksfrömmigkeit. (DE-588)4121880-2
Volkskunst. (DE-588)4063851-0
Metropolitan Museum of Art. (DE-588)1008914-7
New York (State) -- New York. (OCoLC)fst01204333
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9781621901198 (hardcover)
162190119X (hardcover)
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