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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.

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.

St. Jude, patron saint of hopeless causes, is the most popular saint of the American Catholic laity, particularly among women. This fascinating book describes how the cult of St. Jude originated in 1929, traces the rise in Jude's popularity over the next decades, and investigates the circumstances that led so many Catholic women to feel hopeless and to turn to St. Jude for help. Robert A. Orsi tells us that the women who were drawn to St. Jude...

Informative and provocative, this book introduces readers to debates in the contemporary study of religion and suggests future research possibilities.

Informative and provocative, this book introduces readers to debates in the contemporary study of religion and suggests future research possibilities.

A 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. "The Madonna of 115th Street" 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...

Fascinating insights into modern urban religious practice make Orsi'scollection a must-read." -- Publishers Weekly "The essays provideinsight into the cultural creativity, reinterpretation of worship and religiousingenuity of city people over the last 50 years." -- LibraryJournal "At last, a major dissection of the great mystery inmodern Americanlife -- how religion and spirituality prospered amidstindustrialization, urbanization, and rampant ...