Built with faith : Italian American imagination and Catholic material culture in New York City /
Joseph Sciorra.
- First edition.
- Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource (xlii, 262 pages) : illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographies 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.
9781621901310
Catholic Church--History--New York (State)--New York--21st century. Catholic Church--Customs and practices.--New York (State)--New York
Italian American Catholics--Religious life--New York (State)--New York. Italian American Catholics--Social life.--New York (State)--New York Material culture--Religious aspects--Christianity.