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History and Presence

By: Robert A. Orsi

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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Beginning with metaphysical debates in the sixteenth century over the nature of Christ’s presence in the host, the distinguished historian and scholar of religion Robert Orsi imagines an alternative to the future of religion that early moderns proclaimed was inevitable. “Orsi’s evoking of the full reality of the holy in the world is extremely moving, shot through with wonder and horror.” —Caroline Walker Bynum, Common Knowledge “This is a meticulously researched, humane, and deeply challenging book. The men and women studied in this book do not belong to ‘a world we have lost.’ They belong to a world we have lost sight of.” —Peter Brown, Princeton University “[A] brilliant, theologically sophisticated exploration of the Catholic experience of God’s presence through the material world... On every level—from its sympathetic, honest, and sometimes moving ethnography to its astute analytical observations—this book is a scholarly masterpiece.” —A. W. Klink, Choice “Orsi recaptures God’s breaking into the world ... The book does an excellent job of explaining both the difficulties and values inherent in recognizing God in the world.” —Publishers Weekly “This book is classic Orsi: careful, layered, humane, and subtle...a thought-provoking, expertly arranged tour of precisely those abundant, excessive phenomena which scholars have historically found so difficult to think.” —Sonja Anderson, Reading Religion

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0674984595

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Thank You, St. Jude

Women's Devotion to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes

By: Robert A. Orsi

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Thank You, St. Jude

Women's Devotion to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes

By: Robert A. Orsi

The prize-winning story of American women's devotion to St. Jude, the patron saint of hopeless causes. Robert Orsi examines St. Jude's rise to national popularity, beginning in Chicago in 1929, when the daughters and granddaughters of Catholic immigrants called on the saint to help them during the tumultuous years of depression, war, and changing family lives. 14 illustrations.

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0300076592

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History and Presence

By: Robert A. Orsi

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Between Heaven and Earth

The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them

By: Robert A. Orsi

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Between Heaven and Earth

The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them

By: Robert A. Orsi

Between Heaven and Earth explores the relationships men, women, and children have formed with the Virgin Mary and the saints in twentieth-century American Catholic history, and reflects, more broadly, on how people live in the company of sacred figures and how these relationships shape the ties between people on earth. In this boldly argued and beautifully written book, Robert Orsi also considers how scholars of religion occupy the ground in between belief and analysis, faith and scholarship. Orsi infuses his analysis with an autobiographical voice steeped in his own Italian-American Catholic background--from the devotion of his uncle Sal, who had cerebral palsy, to a "crippled saint," Margaret of Castello; to the bond of his Tuscan grandmother with Saint Gemma Galgani. Religion exists not as a medium of making meanings, Orsi maintains, but as a network of relationships between heaven and earth involving people of all ages as well as the many sacred figures they hold dear. Orsi argues that modern academic theorizing about religion has long sanctioned dubious distinctions between "good" or "real" religious expression on the one hand and "bad" or "bogus" religion on the other, which marginalize these everyday relationships with sacred figures. This book is a brilliant critical inquiry into the lives that people make, for better or worse, between heaven and earth, and into the ways scholars of religion could better study of these worlds.

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Princeton University Press

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1400849659

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The Madonna of 115th Street

Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950

By: Robert A. Orsi

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The Madonna of 115th Street

Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950

By: Robert A. Orsi

In a masterful evocation of Italian Harlem and the men and women who lived there, Robert 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. This edition includes a new introduction by the author that outlines both the changes that Italian Harlem has undergone in recent years and significant shifts in the field of religious history.

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Yale University Press

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0300091354

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What Happens When We Practice Religion?

Textures of Devotion in Everyday Life

By: Robert Wuthnow

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What Happens When We Practice Religion?

Textures of Devotion in Everyday Life

By: Robert Wuthnow

He favors the use of a broad range of analytic tools drawn from multiple disciplines and approaches to the study of religion.) The five chapters of this book describe the central concepts and arguments now advancing the study of religious practice. Chapter 1, entitled "Theories", discusses the theoretical contributions associated with the aforementioned shift in religious studies to the investigation of religious practice. Chapter 2, "Situations", discusses how religious activities and experiences are shaped by the physical and temporal spaces in which social action occurs. Chapter 3, "Intentions", takes on an important topic that has proven difficult to study from a social science perspective. "Feelings" are the focus of Chapter 4, and the role of "Bodies" is addressed in Chapter 5. .

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Princeton University Press

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0691198594

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Religion's Power

What Makes It Work

By: Robert Wuthnow

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Religion's Power

What Makes It Work

By: Robert Wuthnow

In 1903, a representative from the Salvation Army's headquarters in London traveled to Canada to explore the possibility of relocating Britain's poor overseas. Over the next three decades, a quarter of a million people were shipped to destinations in Canada, Australia, and Africa. More than a hundred thousand of those deported were children: abandoned, orphaned, and otherwise separated from their natural parents. Dozens of religious organizations took part in the effort: the Catholic Emigration Association, Church of England Society for Empire Settlement, Church of Scotland, Inter-Church Immigration Committee, Jewish Immigrant Aid Society, Methodist Church, Presbyterian Church, Society of Friends, St. Vincent de Paul, and the United Church of Canada, among others. The practice resumed on a smaller scale after World War II and continued until 1970. The agencies involved described their activities in the language of salvation, moral uplift, and service to God. "Carrying off the children of distress to the lands beyond the sea," one of the organizers wrote, was a service "to religion, humanity and civilization.""--

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Oxford University Press

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0197652530

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Between Heaven and Earth

The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them

By: Robert A. Orsi

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The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them

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The Madonna of 115th Street

Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950

By: Robert A. Orsi

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The Madonna of 115th Street

Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950

By: Robert A. Orsi

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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Yale University Press

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0300157525

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Thank You, St. Jude

Women's Devotion to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes

By: Robert A. Orsi

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Thank You, St. Jude

Women's Devotion to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes

By: Robert A. Orsi

St. Jude, patron saint of hopeless causes, is the most popular saint of the American Catholic laity, particularly among women. This fascinating book describes how the cult of St. Jude originated in 1929, traces the rise in Jude's popularity over the next decades, and investigates the circumstances that led so many Catholic women to feel hopeless and to turn to St. Jude for help. Robert A. Orsi tells us that the women who were drawn to St. Jude--daughters and granddaughters of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and Ireland--were the first generations of Catholic women to make lives for themselves outside of their ethnic enclaves. Orsi explores the ambitions and dilemmas of these women as they dealt with the pressures of the Depression and the Second World War, made modern marriages for themselves, entered the workplace, took care of relatives in their old neighborhoods, and raised children in circumstances very different from those of their mothers and grandmothers. Drawing on testimonies written in the periodicals devoted to St. Jude and on interviews with women who felt their lives were changed by St. Jude's intervention, Orsi shows how devotion to St. Jude enabled these women to negotiate their way amid the conflicting expectations of their two cultures--American and Catholic.

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Book's by Robert A. Orsi

History and Presence

History and Presence

Thank You, St. Jude

Thank You, St. Jude

History and Presence

History and Presence

Between Heaven and Earth

Between Heaven and Earth

The Madonna of 115th Street

The Madonna of 115th Street

What Happens When We Practice Religion?

What Happens When We Practice Religion?

Religion's Power

Religion's Power

Between Heaven and Earth

Between Heaven and Earth

The Madonna of 115th Street

The Madonna of 115th Street

Thank You, St. Jude

Thank You, St. Jude

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