Robert A Orsi
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 362908 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robert A Orsi |
| PRENOMES | Robert A |
| SOBRENOME | Orsi |
| ASSINATURA | ORSI R A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Institute of Religious Studies |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 47 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 179 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1987 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
From Dust They Came
Sexualized Religion/Sanctified Sexuality
Of all the polarities around which the modern study of religion is organized—text/practice, rational/emotional, private/public, and so on—the most resilient and enduring has been the good/bad religion binary. This is so even after many decades of critical self-scrutiny in the field of religious studies. Who ought to know this better than we scholars of Catholicism and Mormonism do? The religions we study have been repeatedly framed, separately an…
Lived Catholicism
The study of Lived Catholicism seeks to step away from the normative forces of institutional expectations to explore Catholicism as it is found in the practices of daily life. It draws on the foundations of lived religion in recognising the importance of improvisation, negotiation, resistance and subversion in everyday religiosity. It foregrounds the voices and experiences of ordinary people to explore the places of Catholicism in their lives. Ho…
The Study of Religion on the Other Side of the Good Religion/Bad Religion Binary
One of the most resolute dichotomies in the modern and contemporary study of religion is that between good/bad religions. The bases for making such judgments are fluid, but the outcome is generally recognizable; “good” religions and good religious practitioners adhere to the expectations and norms of the bourgeois modern. The reasons for the endurance of the good/bad religion dichotomy are historical, rooted in the rise of the study of religion a…
Karen J. Johnson. One in Christ
Historical studies of Catholic interracialism in Chicago, and there are many, have a serious figure-ground problem. The figure is a small group of Catholic interracial activists, mostly white; highly educated; deeply, mystically devout; eccentric in manner; and usually under the leadership of a charismatic and handsome priest. The ground is the racism of white Catholics, whether priests, prelates, or people, who have resisted even frequent admoni…
How Liberal Protestant Church Historians Helped Turn "Christianity" into a Good White Protestant American Religion in the Twentieth Century
From the three historians of early Christianity whose lives and careers Elizabeth Clark discusses inThe Fathers Refounded-Arthur Cushman McGiffert of Union Theological Seminary in New York, George LaPiana at Harvard Divinity School, and Shirley Jackson Case from the University of Chicago Divinity School-there breathes a palpable air of white, upper-middle-class liberal Protestant complacency and intellectual superiority. Modernists all, they know…
What Is Catholic about the Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis?
Building the Ivory Tower
In five tautly written case studies—of Ball State University, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Chicago, the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)—LaDale C. Winling analyzes the mutually constitutive relationships between twentieth-century American urban environments and the major institutions of higher education sited within them. Twisted may be a more ap…
Thank You, St. Jude
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 da…
What Is Catholic about the Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis?
This chapter explores a question often asked about survivors of clerical sexual abuse: do they remain Catholic? Such a question, this chapter argues, fails to account for the complex reality. Survivors were abused as youngsters so they were usually unable to determine this for themselves. The insistence of adults that children and teenagers who were abused continue going to church was another way of denying the reality of the abuse. (“They drove …
U.S. Catholics between Memory and Modernity
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History and Presence
History and Presence
One of the greatest sources of violence in modern history has been the question of what Jesus meant when he told his disciples at the Last Supper to eat the bread of his body and drink the wine of his blood and to do so always in remembrance of him. It erupted in Europe in the sixteenth century and was carried around the globe by colonizers, missionaries, explorers, and scholars. In its opening chapters, History and Presence examines the power of…
Every question is open
However challenging scholars of religion find it to talk across their respective subfields, they are responsible for doing so in order to consider future trajectories for research in religious studies. This contribution to the symposium considers what a 2014 seminar of younger scholars of religion see as urgent problems and issues in religious studies today in order to open a conversation about what is left of religion after "religion." How do we…
The Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies
The Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies is both informative and provocative, introducing readers to key debates in the contemporary study of religion and suggesting future research possibilities. A group of distinguished scholars takes up some of the most pressing theoretical questions in the field. What is a 'religious tradition'? How are religious texts read? What takes place when a religious practitioner stands before a representation of …
Belief
The "So-Called History" of the Study of Religion
While it is the case that Christian values and priorities (in particular, Protestant Christian ones) were fundamental in the making of the modern discipline of religious studies, scholars of religion have struggled within and against this inheritance over the past two centuries in their work of understanding other religions. Western religious scholarship developed in a worldwide circulation of comparisons and commentaries that even within discrep…
"A Response to the Commentary on "Abundant History
September/October 2008 Historically Speaking 25 dencewrittenintotheverywarp andwoof of history. ConstanceM. Fureyisassociateprofessorof religious studiesatthe University of Indiana. Sheistheauthor of Erasmus, Contarmi, and the Religious Republic of Letters (Cambridge UniversityPress, 2005). She hasalso writtenarticlesfor'Church History , /AfJournal of Religion, andtheHarvard Theological Review. Fureyiscurrentlyworkingon devotionalpoetryin Renaiss…
Abundant History
12 Historically Speaking September/October 2008 "Abundant History": A Forum* AFEW YEARSAGO, WE RANA FORUM IN THESE PAGES ON of Religion, is widely recognisedas one of the leading scholars of American religious Constantin Fasolt's Limits of History. And in theJuly/August 2008 issue we publishedaseriesof reviews of Manifestos for History. Although verydifferentin detail, both of these exploredthe limits of criticalhistoricalmethodandits epistemol ó…
Five, or the Quest for an Abundant Empiricism
2 + 2 = Five, or the Quest for an Abundant Empiricism Robert A. Orsi (bio) I very much appreciate the interest of the editor of Spiritus, Douglas Burton-Christie, in my new book and I am grateful to the three commentators he chose for this symposium for their generous, insightful readings and for their questions. But I am not completely comfortable appearing in these pages (as everyone graciously seems to understand). Not only have I never though…
Everyday Miracles
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What Is Catholic about the Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis
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Is the Study of Lived Religion Irrelevant to the World We Live in? Special Presidential Plenary Address, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Salt Lake City, November 2, 2002
The Religious Boundaries of an Inbetween People
THE CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN OF ITALIAN IMMIGRANTS TO THE United States all seem to know a story, which they insist is true, about a greenhorn just off the banana boat who is walking one day down a street in New York (or Boston or Chicago or St. Louis) when he sees a black man. The poor greenhorn is mesmerized. He has never seen a black person before. What is this? Stumbling to keep up, he trots alongside the black man, staring in consternation…
Abundant History
12 Historically Speaking September/October 2008 "Abundant History": A Forum* AFEW YEARSAGO, WE RANA FORUM IN THESE PAGES ON of Religion, is widely recognisedas one of the leading scholars of American religious Constantin Fasolt's Limits of History. And in theJuly/August 2008 issue we publishedaseriesof reviews of Manifestos for History. Although verydifferentin detail, both of these exploredthe limits of criticalhistoricalmethodandits epistemol ó…
Thank You, St. Jude
This prize-winning book tells the story of American women's devotion to St. Jude, the patron saint of hopeless causes, one of the most popular saints in the American Catholic pantheon. Robert Orsi examines St. Jude's rise from obscurity to national popularity; beginning in Chicago in 1929, and he shows how the daughters and granddaughters of Catholic immigrants called on the saint to help them make lives for themselves in the tumultuous years of …
History and Presence
One of the greatest sources of violence in modern history has been the question of what Jesus meant when he told his disciples at the Last Supper to eat the bread of his body and drink the wine of his blood and to do so always in remembrance of him. It erupted in Europe in the sixteenth century and was carried around the globe by colonizers, missionaries, explorers, and scholars. In its opening chapters, History and Presence examines the power of…
Belief
The "So-Called History" of the Study of Religion
While it is the case that Christian values and priorities (in particular, Protestant Christian ones) were fundamental in the making of the modern discipline of religious studies, scholars of religion have struggled within and against this inheritance over the past two centuries in their work of understanding other religions. Western religious scholarship developed in a worldwide circulation of comparisons and commentaries that even within discrep…
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Thank You, St. Jude
Journal Article Thank You, St. Jude: Women's Devotion to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes. By Robert A. Orsi. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. xxiv, 303 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-300-06476-4.) Get access John T. McGreevy John T. McGreevy University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 2, September 1997, Pages 704–705, https://d…
Five, or the Quest for an Abundant Empiricism
2 + 2 = Five, or the Quest for an Abundant Empiricism Robert A. Orsi (bio) I very much appreciate the interest of the editor of Spiritus, Douglas Burton-Christie, in my new book and I am grateful to the three commentators he chose for this symposium for their generous, insightful readings and for their questions. But I am not completely comfortable appearing in these pages (as everyone graciously seems to understand). Not only have I never though…
The Disciplinary Vocabulary of Modernity
THE KEY WORDS OF THE CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL SCENE-secularization, modernization, globalization, fundamentalism, pluralism, and so on-present themselves to us as a descriptive vocabulary for what is really out there in the world, for what has happened and what is happening. They purport to tell us that this is the way the world is. But in fact these are prescriptive terms: they make up a disciplinary nomenclature that tells us how the world must be, …
Mildred, is it fun to be a cripple
Research Article| July 01 1994 “Mildred, is it fun to be a cripple?”: The Culture of Suffering in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Catholicism Robert A. Orsi Robert A. Orsi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1994) 93 (3): 547–590. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-93-3-547 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Robert A. Orsi; “Mildred, is it…
The Fault of Memory
Conflict in immigrant communities between parents and children over the right way to live is cast in the idioms of geography. Immigrants tell their children stories about the place they left as a display of their deepest values and understanding of the world. This article explores the nature of this interaction in New York's largest Italian community, Italian Harlem, during a period of significant intergenerational tension. Most scholars of Itali…
Building the Ivory Tower
In five tautly written case studies—of Ball State University, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Chicago, the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)—LaDale C. Winling analyzes the mutually constitutive relationships between twentieth-century American urban environments and the major institutions of higher education sited within them. Twisted may be a more ap…
Local Attachments
The Madonna of 115th Street
The Cult of the Saints and the Reimagination of the Space and Time of Sickness in Twentieth-Century American Catholicism
The Cult of the Saints and the Reimagination of the Space and Time of Sickness in TwentiethCentury American Catholicism* Robert A. Orsi Devotion to the saints has been an essential component of the Catholic experience of sickness and suffering for centuries.1 Statues of the saints stand on the bedside tables of the sick and holy images are affixed to the walls above their heads, relics are pinned to their bedclothes by desperate kin, candles are …
Christian Pilgrimage in Modern Western Europe . Mary Lee Nolan , Sidney Nolan
The Fault of Memory
Conflict in immigrant communities between parents and children over the right way to live is cast in the idioms of geography. Immigrants tell their children stories about the place they left as a display of their deepest values and understanding of the world. This article explores the nature of this interaction in New York's largest Italian community, Italian Harlem, during a period of significant intergenerational tension. Most scholars of Itali…
The Fault of Memory
Conflict in immigrant communities between parents and children over the right way to live is cast in the idioms of geography. Immigrants tell their children stories about the place they left as a display of their deepest values and understanding of the world. This article explores the nature of this interaction in New York's largest Italian community, Italian Harlem, during a period of significant intergenerational tension. Most scholars of Itali…
Beyond the Mainstream in the Study of American Religious History
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The Religious Boundaries of an Inbetween People
THE CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN OF ITALIAN IMMIGRANTS TO THE United States all seem to know a story, which they insist is true, about a greenhorn just off the banana boat who is walking one day down a street in New York (or Boston or Chicago or St. Louis) when he sees a black man. The poor greenhorn is mesmerized. He has never seen a black person before. What is this? Stumbling to keep up, he trots alongside the black man, staring in consternation…
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Mildred, is it fun to be a cripple
Research Article| July 01 1994 “Mildred, is it fun to be a cripple?”: The Culture of Suffering in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Catholicism Robert A. Orsi Robert A. Orsi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1994) 93 (3): 547–590. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-93-3-547 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Robert A. Orsi; “Mildred, is it…
Local Attachments
Thank You, St. Jude
What Parish Are You From? A Chicago Irish Community and Race Relations.
Mexican Americans and the Catholic Church, 1900-1965
Journal Article Mexican Americans and the Catholic Church, 1900–1965, Puerto Rican and Cuban Catholics in the U. S., 1900–1965, Hispanic Catholic Culture in the U. S.: Issues and Concerns, Our Lady of Guadalupe: Faith and Empowerment among Mexican-American Women Get access Robert Orsi Robert Orsi Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82…
Thank You, St. Jude
This prize-winning book tells the story of American women's devotion to St. Jude, the patron saint of hopeless causes, one of the most popular saints in the American Catholic pantheon. Robert Orsi examines St. Jude's rise from obscurity to national popularity; beginning in Chicago in 1929, and he shows how the daughters and granddaughters of Catholic immigrants called on the saint to help them make lives for themselves in the tumultuous years of …
Thank You, St. Jude
Journal Article Thank You, St. Jude: Women's Devotion to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes. By Robert A. Orsi. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. xxiv, 303 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-300-06476-4.) Get access John T. McGreevy John T. McGreevy University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 2, September 1997, Pages 704–705, https://d…
It Comes from the People
It Comes from the People: Community Development and Local Theology. MARY ANN HINSDALE, HELEN M. LEWIS, and S. MAXINE WALLER. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995. xviii + 400 pp., illustrations, appendixes, notes, index
CHAPTER ONE. Everyday Miracles
Thank You, St. Jude
Mary Jo Neitz; Thank You, St. Jude: Women's Devotions to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes, by Robert Orsi. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997, 250 p
Gods of the city
Introduction: Crossing the City Line Robert A. Orsi 1. Libations on Linoleum: Ecological Dissonance and Vodou Ritual Improvisations between New York and Haiti Karen McCarthy Brown 2. The Hindu Gods in a Split-Level World: The Sri Siva-Vishnu Temple in Suburban Washington, DC Joanne Punzo Waghorne 3. Diaspora Nationalism and Urban Landscape: Cuban Immigrants at a Catholic Shrine in Miami Thomas A. Tweed 4. Altared Spaces: Afro-Cuban Religions and …
Snakes Alive
At the end of a compelling account of his two-year sojourn among snake-handling Christians in southern Appalachia, Dennis Covington, a Georgia-based reporter for the New York Times, describes the night he realized that he could not join the handlers, whom he had come to love and respect, in their faith. I want to borrow this instance of one man's discovery of radical religious otherness—a discovery that led him to turn away in sorrow and disappoi…
Is the Study of Lived Religion Irrelevant to the World We Live in? Special Presidential Plenary Address, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Salt Lake City, November 2, 2002
A New Beginning, Again
In spring 2003 the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the American Academy of Religion crafted a strategic plan for the coming years. The immediate occasion for this was the academy's centennial. One feature of this plan was the decision to hold stand-alone annual meetings of the AAR, ending the custom in place since the 1970s of meeting with the Society of Biblical Literature. This presidential address discusses the historical backgro…
A New Beginning, Again
In spring 2003 the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the American Academy of Religion crafted a strategic plan for the coming years. The immediate occasion for this was the academy's centennial. One feature of this plan was the decision to hold stand-alone annual meetings of the AAR, ending the custom in place since the 1970s of meeting with the Society of Biblical Literature. This presidential address discusses the historical backgro…
The Disciplinary Vocabulary of Modernity
THE KEY WORDS OF THE CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL SCENE-secularization, modernization, globalization, fundamentalism, pluralism, and so on-present themselves to us as a descriptive vocabulary for what is really out there in the world, for what has happened and what is happening. They purport to tell us that this is the way the world is. But in fact these are prescriptive terms: they make up a disciplinary nomenclature that tells us how the world must be, …
Five, or the Quest for an Abundant Empiricism
2 + 2 = Five, or the Quest for an Abundant Empiricism Robert A. Orsi (bio) I very much appreciate the interest of the editor of Spiritus, Douglas Burton-Christie, in my new book and I am grateful to the three commentators he chose for this symposium for their generous, insightful readings and for their questions. But I am not completely comfortable appearing in these pages (as everyone graciously seems to understand). Not only have I never though…
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