The Madonna of 115th Street

The Madonna of 115th Street
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 358
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ISBN-10 : 9780300157529
ISBN-13 : 0300157525
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Book Synopsis The Madonna of 115th Street by : Robert A. Orsi

Download or read book The Madonna of 115th Street written by Robert A. Orsi and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 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


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