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Maldonado-Estrada, Alyssa
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Lifeblood of the Parish
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- Media type: E-Book
- Title: Lifeblood of the Parish : Men and Catholic Devotion in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
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Contains:
Frontmatter
Contents
List of Figures
Introduction
1. Turks, Tattoos, and the Masculine Body of the Feast
2. Manual Labor and the Artistry of Devotion in the Basement
3. Making Money, Keeping the Parish Alive
4. Public Masculinities at the Feast
5. Constructing Catholic Propriety on North Eighth Street
6. Religion and Gentrification in the Twenty- First- Century City
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
- Contributor: Maldonado-Estrada, Alyssa [VerfasserIn]
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imprint:
New York, NY: New York University Press, [2020]
- Published in: North American Religions
- Extent: 1 Online-Ressource
- Language: English
- DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479887941.001.0001
- ISBN: 9781479887941
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- Keywords: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Religious life and customs ; Catholic men New York (State) Brooklyn Social life and customs ; Catholic men Religious life New York (State) New York ; Catholic men New York (State) Brooklyn Religious life ; Catholic men New York (State) New York Social life and customs ; Italian American Catholics Religious life New York (State) New York ; Italian American Catholics New York (State) Brooklyn Religious life ; Masculinity Religious aspects Catholic Church ; RELIGION / Christian Life / Men's Issues ; Backstage ; Body ; Brooklyn ; Catholic diversity ; Catholic parish ; Catholic practice ; Catholic ; Catholicism ; Dance of the Giglio ; Embodied ethnography ; Embodiment ; Ethnic enclave ; Ethnicity ; Ethnography ; Fatherhood ; [...]
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Footnote:
In English
- Description: A New York City ethnography that explores men's unique approaches to Catholic devotionEvery Saturday, and sometimes on weekday evenings, a group of men in old clothes can be found in the basement of the Shrine Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Each year the parish hosts the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and San Paolino di Nola. Its crowning event is the Dance of the Giglio, where the men lift a seventy-foot tall, four-ton tower through the streets, bearing its weight on their shoulders.Drawing on six years of research, Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada reveals the making of this Italian American tower, as the men work year-round to prepare for the Feast. She argues that by paying attention to this behind-the-scenes activity, largely overlooked devotional practices shed new light on how men embody and enact their religiosity in sometimes unexpected ways.Lifeblood of the Parish evocatively and accessibly presents the sensory and material world of Catholicism in Brooklyn, where religion is raucous and playful. Maldonado-Estrada here offers a new lens through which to understand men’s religious practice, showing how men and boys become socialized into their tradition and express devotion through unexpected acts like painting, woodworking, fundraising, and sporting tattoos. These practices, though not usually considered religious, are central to the ways the men she studied embodied their Catholic identity and formed bonds to the church
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