Between Heaven and Earth : : The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them / / 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 betw...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 13 halftones. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Jesus Held Him So Close In His Love For Him That He Left The Marks Of His Passion On His Body
- Chapter One. "Mildred, Is It Fun To Be A Cripple?" The Culture Of Suffering In Mid-Twentieth Century American Catholicism
- Chapter Two. The Many Names Of The Mother Of God
- Chapter Three. Material Children: Making God'S Presence Real For Catholic Boys And Girls And For The Adults In Relation To Them
- Chapter Four. Two Aspects Of One Life: Saint Gemma Galgani And My Grandmother In The Wound Between Devotion And History, The Natural And The Supernatural
- Chapter Five. "Have You Ever Prayed To Saint Jude?" Reflections On Fieldwork In Catholic Chicago
- Chapter Six. Snakes Alive: Religious Studies Between Heaven And Earth
- Notes
- Index