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

Edition First edition. Descript 1 online resource (xlii, 262 pages) : illustrations, maps Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies Supplement. Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-250) 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. Note English. Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide 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 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. (OCoLC)fst02008009 New York (State) -- New York. (OCoLC)fst01204333 Christianity. Religion. Philosophy & Religion. 2000-2099 ISBN 1621901319 (electronic bk.) 9781621901310 (electronic bk.) 162190119X 9781621901198 (hardcover)