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Robert Anthony Orsi

    April 19, 1953
    The Madonna of 115th Street
    Between Heaven and Earth
    History and Presence
    • History and Presence

      • 384 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
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      The unseeing of the gods was a requirement of Western modernity. Beginning with sixteenth-century debates over Christ's real presence in the host, Robert Orsi imagines an alternative. He urges us to withhold from absence the prestige modernity encourages and instead to approach contemporary religion and history with the gods fully present.

      History and Presence
    • Between Heaven and Earth

      • 264 pages
      • 10 hours of reading
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      Explores the relationships men, women, and children have formed with the Virgin Mary and the saints in twentieth-century American Catholic history, and reflects on how people live in the company of sacred figures and how these relationships shape the ties between people on earth.

      Between Heaven and Earth
    • The Madonna of 115th Street

      • 287 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
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      A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the author's classic study of popular religion in Italian Harlem. In the preface, it discusses significant shifts in the field of religious history and calls for new ways of empirically studying divine presences in human life.

      The Madonna of 115th Street