Built with Faith: Italian American Imagination and Catholic Material Culture in New York City

by Joseph Sciorra

Book Overview

Over the course of 130 years, Italian American Catholics in New York City have developed a varied repertoire of devotional art and architecture to create community-based sacred spaces in their homes and neighborhoods. These spaces exist outside of but in relationship to the consecrated halls of local parishes and are sites of worship in conventionally secular locations. Such ethnic building traditions and urban ethnic landscapes have long been neglected...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 162190119X
• ISBN13: 9781621901198
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.2" x 10.2"