The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Robert A. Orsi's classic study of popular religion in Italian Harlem. In a new preface, Orsi discusses significant shifts in the field of religious history and calls for new ways of empirically studying divine presences in human life. "The Madonna of 115th Street has over the last quarter century become a classic of American religious history. There are few books that I have enjoyed teaching more over the years and even fewer that have taught me as much about American Catholic history."—Leigh E. Schmidt, author of Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment |
Contents
Introduction to the Third Edition | ix |
Introduction to the Second Edition | xxvii |
Popular Religion and Italian Harlem | lvii |
1 The Days and Nights of the Festa | 1 |
2 Italian Harlem | 14 |
3 The Origins of the Devotion to Mount Carmel in Italian Harlem | 50 |
4 The DomusCentered Society | 75 |
5 Conflicts in the Domus | 107 |
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The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950 Robert A. Orsi No preview available - 1988 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950 |
| Author | Robert A. Orsi |
| Edition | unabridged |
| Publisher | Yale University Press, 2010 |
| ISBN | 0300157525, 9780300157529 |
| Length | 287 pages |
| Subjects | › Religion / General |
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