The saints in the lives of Italian-Americans : an interdisciplinary investigation / co-edited by Joseph A. Varacalli [and others] ; foreword by Mario B. Mignone.

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Other Authors: Varacalli, Joseph A.
Language:English
Published: Stony Brook, N.Y. : Forum Italicum, Inc., [1999], ©1999.
Series:Filibrary series ; no. 14.
Subjects:
Italian Americans > Religion.
Italian Americans > Rites and ceremonies.
Saints.
Physical Description:xi, 323 pages ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • As the saints apparently go marching out : why study them? / Joseph A. Varacalli
  • The saints in the lives of Italian-Americans : some key figures / Stephen M. DiGiovanni
  • Italian-Americans and their saints : historical considerations / Mary Elizabeth Brown
  • The social contexts of religious devotion : how saint worship expresses popular religiosity / Salvatore Primeggia
  • Saints over sacraments? Italian and Italian-American spiritual traditions / John F. Quinn
  • Church dedications of Italian-American national parishes : changing types of patrons 1896-1960 / Richard Renoff
  • Saints, suburbs, and parish life in Long Island's Italian-American communities / Salvatore J. LaGumina
  • The view from the outside : perceptions of Italian-American religiosity / Dominic A. Aquila
  • From ethnicity to ideology : the shifting battle over the devotion to the saints / Robert J. Batule
  • The saints and our psychological well being : a psychologist's perspective on an Italian-American legacy / Philip J. Scrofani
  • People of the feasts : the international realism of the Italian-Americans
  • The saints in the lives of Italian-American Catholics : toward a realistic multiculturalism / Joseph A. Varacalli
  • The saints in everyday thought and practice : an exploratory social psychological inquiry / Salvatore Primeggia, Joseph A. Varacalli
  • The saints in the lives of Italian-Americans : a bibliographic essay / Mary Elizabeth Brown.