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Author Orsi, Robert A

Title The Madonna of 115th Street : faith and community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950 / Robert Anthony Orsi
Edition 3rd ed
Published New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (lxvii, 287 pages)
Contents Cover -- Contents -- Introduction to the Third Edition -- Introduction to the Second Edition -- Introduction: Popular Religion and Italian Harlem -- 1 The Days and Nights of the Festa -- 2 Italian Harlem -- 3 The Origins of the Devotion to Mount Carmel in Italian Harlem -- 4 The Domus-Centered Society -- 5 Conflicts in the Domus -- Conflict -- Women in Italian Harlem -- 6 Toward an Inner History of Immigration -- 7 The Meanings of the Devotion to the Madonna of 115th Street -- The Devotion and the Community of Immigrants
The Devotion and the People's Faithfulness to Italy and Southern Italian TraditionsThe Devotion and the Domus -- The Shaping of Cara Harlem -- The Community Reveals Itself to Itself -- The Devotion and the Larger Collectivities of the City and Nation -- Success -- Healing and the Sense World of the Festa -- The Italian Way of Being Human -- The Festa and the World of Work -- From Suffering to Sacrifice -- Women and the Devotion to the Madonna of 115th Street -- Power -- 8 The Theology of the Streets -- A Note on Abbreviations -- Notes
Selected BibliographyIndex -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y
Notes Previous edition: 2002
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-282) and index
Notes English
Subject Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Devotion to -- New York (State) -- New York
SUBJECT Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint fast
Subject Italian Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Religion
Italian Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions
RELIGION -- General.
Devotion
Italian Americans -- Religion
Italian Americans -- Social conditions
Social conditions
Gemeinde
Italienischer Einwanderer
SUBJECT Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions
Subject New York (State) -- New York
New York (State) -- New York -- Harlem
New York- Harlem
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010922013
ISBN 9780300168679
0300168675
0300157525
9780300157529
9780585360751
0585360758