Gods of the City

Robert A. Orsi is Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University and author of The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950 and Thank You, St. Jude: Women's Devotions to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes. He has taught at Fordham University at Lincoln Center and at the Universita degli Studi di Roma and has held fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Orsi's books have been awarded the Alpha Sigma Nu National Book Prize of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (1985); the American Catholic Historical Association's John Gilmary Shea Prize (1986); and the Merle Curti Award in American Social History from the Organization of American Historians (1998).List of contributors: (CB will pass contributor info to Marketing as soon as it is complete)Wayne AshleyDavid H. Brown Karen McCarthy BrownMadeline DuntleyJack KugelmassJoseph SciorraThomas A. TweedJoanne Punzo WaghorneDiane Winston

• Introduction: Crossing the City LineRobert A. Orsi1. Libations on Linoleum: Ecological Dissonance and Vodou Ritual Improvisations between New York and HaitiKaren McCarthy Brown2. The Hindu Gods in a Split-Level World: The Sri Siva-Vishnu Temple in Suburban Washington, DCJoanne Punzo Waghorne3. Diaspora Nationalism and Urban Landscape: Cuban Immigrants at a Catholic Shrine in MiamiThomas A. Tweed4. Altared Spaces: Afro-Cuban Religions and the Urban Landscape in Cuba and the United StatesDavid H. Brown5. Moses of the South Bronx: Aging and Dying in the Old NeighborhoodJack Kugelmass6. The Religious Boundaries of an In between People: Street Feste and the Problem of the Dark-Skinned Other in Italian Harlem, 1920-1990Robert A. Orsi7. Heritage, Ritual, and Translation: Seattle's Japanese Presbyterian ChurchMadeline Duntley8. "We Go Where the Italians Live": Religious Processions as Ethnic and Territorial Markers in a Multiethnic Brooklyn NeighborhoodJoseph Sciorra9. The Stations of the Cross: Christ, Politics, and Processions in New York City's Lower East SideWayne Ashley10. "The Cathedral of the Open-Air": The Salvationist Army's Sacralization of Secular Space, New York City, 1880-1910Diane Winston

"At last, a major dissection of the great mystery in modern American life--how religion and spirituality prospered amidst industrialization, urbanization, and rampant technological change after 1880!" --Jon Butler, Yale University