Built with Faith: Italian American Imagination and Catholic Material Culture in NYC (02/23)
A Book Presentation by Joseph Sciorra
Posted in: Inserra, Italian News and Events
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 relation 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 by all but a few scholars. Joseph Sciorra’s Built with Faith offers a place-centric, ethnographic study of the religious material culture of New York City’s Italian American Catholics.
Join us for this book presentation and Q&A with the author on Thur. Feb 23, 6:00-8:00 p.m., at Cohen Lounge.