Built with Faith : Italian American Imagination and Catholic Material Culture in New York City.
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TextPublisher: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (305 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781621901310
- Catholic Church-New York (State)-New York-History-21st century
- Catholic Church-New York (State)-New York-Customs and practices
- Italian American Catholics-New York (State)-New York-Religious life
- Italian American Catholics-New York (State)-New York-Social life
- Material culture-Religious aspects-Christianity
- 282.089/5107471
- BX1407
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Private Devotions in Public Places: The Sacred Spaces of Yard Shrines and Sidewalk Altars -- 2. Imagined Places and Fragile Landscapes: Nostalgia and Utopia in Nativity Presepi -- 3. Festive Intensification and Place Consciousness in Christmas House Displays -- 4. 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 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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