The Madonna of 115th Street; Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950, Third Edition

by Robert A. Orsi

• ISBN13: 9780300157529
• ISBN10: 0300157525
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2010-09-28
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

In a masterful evocation of Italian Harlem and the men and women who lived there, Robert A. Orsi examines how the annual festa of the Madonna of 115th Street both influenced and reflected the lives of the celebrants. His prize-winning book offers a new perspective on lived religion; the place of religion in the everyday lives of men, women, and children; the experiences of immigration and community formation; and American Catholicism. In a new preface, Orsi discusses significant shifts in the field of religious history and calls for new ways of studying divine presences in human life. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Robert A. Orsi is Professor of Religion, Northwestern University, and author of Thank You, St. Jude.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Third Edition	p. ix
Introduction to the Second Edition	p. xxvii
Introduction: Popular Religion and Italian Harlem	p. lvii
The Days and Nights of the Festa	p. 1
Italian Harlem	p. 14
The Origins of the Devotion to Mount Carmel in Italian Harlem	p. 50
The Domus-Centered Society	p. 75
Conflicts in the Domus	p. 107
Conflict	p. 109
Women in Italian Harlem	p. 129
Toward an Inner History of Immigration	p. 150
The Meanings of the Devotion to the Madonna of 115th Street	p. 163
The Devotion and the Community of Immigrants	p. 163
The Devotion and the People's Faithfulness to Italy and Southern Italian Traditions	p. 168
The Devotion and the Domus	p. 171
The Shaping of Cora Harlem	p. 178
The Community Reveals Itself to Itself	p. 186
The Devotion and the Larger Collectivities of the City and Nation	p. 188
Success	p. 191
Healing and the Sense World of the Festa	p. 193
The Italian Way of Being Human	p. 195
The Festa and the World of Work	p. 197
From Suffering to Sacrifice	p. 202
Women and the Devotion to the Madonna of 115th Street	p. 204
Power	p. 217
The Theology of the Streets	p. 219
A Note on Abbreviations	p. 233
Notes	p. 235
Selected Bibliography	p. 271
Index	p. 283
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