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What’s So Funny about the Virgin Mary?

(20 09 2008) Joey Skee

Ludic and hybridic reworkings of Catholic imagery and ritual are part of recent reimagining of Italian-American culture and identity.

La Madonna Nera of New York City

(02 09 2008) Joey Skee

Italian Americans gather at a gay bar in Manhattan in celebration of the Black Madonna.

Sending a Telegram to the Pope

(21 08 2008) Joey Skee

Power, Humor, and the Triumph of the Lower Bodily Stratum.

Una malia contro il malocchio dei prominenti.

(11 07 2008) Joey Skee

Iettature, malie, & la lingua a strascinuni in the 21st century.

“O’ Giglio e Paradiso”: An Italian-American Musical Classic

(09 07 2008) Joey Skee

What the Brooklyn giglio feast and an obscure musician might tell us about Italian-American culture.

The Shining Stone of West Scranton

(26 05 2008) Stephanie Longo

Scranton’s St. Lucy’s provides visitors with a lesson in Italian-American history.

Holy Land USA, a Religious Vision in Ruins

(02 05 2008) Joey Skee

During the 1960s and 1970s, 40,000 people visited Waterbury, CT annually to pray at Holy Land USA, a Catholic theme park created by John Greco. Now it lies in ruins.

Gino Vitale, Brooklyn developer and shrine builder.

(30 03 2008) Joey Skee

Brooklyn developer Gino Vitale adapts the centuries old edicole sacre (devotional shrines) to his newly constructed buildings.

St. Joseph's Altar, Barese Style

(19 03 2008) Joey Skee

Celebrating St. Joseph in Brooklyn and some thoughts on lived religion.

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