The saints in the lives of Italian-Americans
Subtitle: an interdisciplinary investigation
By: co-edited by Joseph A. Varacalli ... [et al.] ; foreword by Mario B. Mignone.
Contributors: Varacalli, Joseph A.
Series: Filibrary series ;; 14; Filibrary series ;; no. 14.
Publisher: Forum Italicum
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Stony Brook, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
Subjects: Catholic Church -- United States -- Customs and practices.; Italian American Catholics -- Religious life.; Christian saints -- Cult -- United States.; United States -- Religious life and customs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Forum Italicum. Supplement."
Table of contents: title: As the saints apparently go marching out : why study them? / Joseph A. Varacalli; title: The saints in the lives of Italian-Americans : some key figures / Stephen M. DiGiovanni; title: Italian-Americans and their saints : historical considerations / Mary Elizabeth Brown; title: The social contexts of religious devotion : how saint worship expresses popular religiosity / Salvatore Primeggia; title: Saints over sacraments? Italian and Italian-American spiritual traditions / John F. Quinn; title: Church dedications of Italian-American national parishes : changing types of patrons 1896-1960 / Richard Renoff; title: Saints, suburbs, and parish life in Long Island's Italian-American communities / Salvatore J. LaGumina; title: The view from the outside : perceptions of Italian-American religiosity / Dominic A. Aquila; title: From ethnicity to ideology : the shifting battle over the devotion to the saints / Robert J. Batule; title: The saints and our psychological well being : a psychologist's perspective on an Italian-American legacy / Philip J. Scrofani; title: People of the festa : the incarnational realism of the Italian-Americans; title: The saints in the lives of Italian-American Catholics : toward a realistic multiculturalism / Joseph A. Varacalli; title: The saints in everyday thought and practice : an exploratory social psychological inquiry / Salvatore Primeggia, Joseph A. Varacalli; title: The saints in the lives of Italian-Americans : a bibliographic essay / Mary Elizabeth Brown.