TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maldonado-Estrada,Alyssa
TI  - Lifeblood of the Parish: Men and Catholic Devotion in Williamsburg, Brooklyn 
T2  - North American Religions
SN  - 9781479872244
AV  - BX4603.B8 M35 2021
U1  - 282.74723 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
KW  - Religious life and customs
KW  - Catholic men
KW  - Religious life
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Italian American Catholics
KW  - Masculinity
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - RELIGION / Christian Life / Men's Issues
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Backstage
KW  - Body
KW  - Brooklyn
KW  - Catholic diversity
KW  - Catholic parish
KW  - Catholic practice
KW  - Catholic
KW  - Catholicism
KW  - Dance of the Giglio
KW  - Embodied ethnography
KW  - Embodiment
KW  - Ethnic enclave
KW  - Ethnicity
KW  - Ethnography
KW  - Fatherhood
KW  - Fundraising
KW  - Gender and life stage
KW  - Gender
KW  - Gentrification
KW  - Giglio
KW  - Homosociality
KW  - Italian-American
KW  - Labor
KW  - Manhood
KW  - Masculinities
KW  - Material culture
KW  - Mayor Bloomberg
KW  - Money
KW  - Neighborhood change
KW  - Our Lady of Mount Carmel
KW  - Parish
KW  - Positionality
KW  - Race
KW  - Reflexivity
KW  - Religion and boundary-making
KW  - Religion and business
KW  - Ritual
KW  - Robert Moses
KW  - Saint Paulinus
KW  - Saints
KW  - Self-made man
KW  - Sexuality
KW  - Tattoos
KW  - Urban renewal
KW  - Williamsburg, Brooklyn
KW  - Williamsburg
N1  - restricted access
N2  - A New York City ethnography that explores men's unique approaches to Catholic devotionEvery Saturday, and sometimes on weekday evenings, a group of men in old clothes can be found in the basement of the Shrine Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Each year the parish hosts the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and San Paolino di Nola. Its crowning event is the Dance of the Giglio, where the men lift a seventy-foot tall, four-ton tower through the streets, bearing its weight on their shoulders.Drawing on six years of research, Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada reveals the making of this Italian American tower, as the men work year-round to prepare for the Feast. She argues that by paying attention to this behind-the-scenes activity, largely overlooked devotional practices shed new light on how men embody and enact their religiosity in sometimes unexpected ways.Lifeblood of the Parish evocatively and accessibly presents the sensory and material world of Catholicism in Brooklyn, where religion is raucous and playful. Maldonado-Estrada here offers a new lens through which to understand men's religious practice, showing how men and boys become socialized into their tradition and express devotion through unexpected acts like painting, woodworking, fundraising, and sporting tattoos. These practices, though not usually considered religious, are central to the ways the men she studied embodied their Catholic identity and formed bonds to the church
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ER  -