The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950, Third Edition

PA twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Robert A. Orsi’s classic study of popular religion in Italian Harlem. In a new preface, Orsi discusses significant shifts in the field of religious history and calls for new ways of empirically studying divine presences in human life./pP"IThe Madonna of 115th Street/I has over the last quarter century become a classic of American religious history. There are few books that I have enjoyed teaching more over the years and even fewer that have taught me as much about American Catholic history."—Leigh E. Schmidt, author of IHearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment/I