Built with Faith - Sciorra, Joseph
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Offers a place-centric, ethnographic study of the religious material culture of New York City's Italian American Catholics. Joseph Sciorra spent thirty-five years researching these community art forms and interviewing Italian immigrant and US-born Catholics. Sciorra reveals how Italian Americans in the city use expressive culture and religious practices to transform everyday urban space into unique, communal sites of ethnically infused religiosity.

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Offers a place-centric, ethnographic study of the religious material culture of New York City's Italian American Catholics. Joseph Sciorra spent thirty-five years researching these community art forms and interviewing Italian immigrant and US-born Catholics. Sciorra reveals how Italian Americans in the city use expressive culture and religious practices to transform everyday urban space into unique, communal sites of ethnically infused religiosity.
Autorenporträt
Joseph Sciorra is the director of Academic and Cultural Programs at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College. He is the editor of Italian Folk: Vernacular Culture in Italian-American Lives and co-editor of Embroidered Stories: Interpreting Women's Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora.