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In Search of Community

Essays in Memory of Werner Stark, 1905-85

Eileen B. Leonard and Herman Strasser

In Search of Community is a collection of thirteen essays by former students of Dr. Werner Stark, influential historian of social thought. The work opens with an introduction succinctly relating an...

ISBN: 9780823213528

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American Parishes

Remaking Local Catholicism

Edited by Jr. Adler Gary J., Tricia C. Bruce and Brian Starks

Contributor(s): Jr. Adler Gary J., Nancy Ammerman, Mary Jo Bane, Tricia C. Bruce, John A. Coleman, Kathleen Garces-Foley, Mark M. Gray, Brett Hoover, Courtney Irby, Tia Noelle Pratt and Brian Starks

Between individual Catholics and a global institution, thousands of local parishes remake Catholicism each day. With fresh data and sociological methods, this book shows how parishes are shaped by community, geography, and authority; how parishes respond to diversity and change; and how parishes worship and educate for the future of Catholicism.

ISBN: 9780823284344

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Paul Hanly Furfey

Priest, Scientist, Social Reformer

Nicholas K. Rademacher

Recounts and analyzes Paul Hanly Furfey’s contribution to Catholic social thought and practice in the fields of sociology, social work, and higher education across the twentieth-century in his roles as priest, scholar, educator, and social reformer.

ISBN: 9780823276776

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The Common Growl

Toward a Poetics of Precarious Community

Thomas Claviez

An impressive collection bringing together contributions of renowned scholars on the topic of a "New Poetics of Community" that goes beyond both a romantic nostalgia for homogeneity and the myths of social engineering and rational choice.

ISBN: 9780823270927

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Upper West Side Catholics

Liberal Catholicism in a Conservative Archdiocese

Thomas J. Shelley

The history of Ascension parish is a microcosm of the history of the Catholic Church in New York City because it has been characterized by the two most powerful dynamics that have shaped the nature of New York Catholicism: immigration and neighborhood change.

ISBN: 9780823285419

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Lady Liberty

An Illustrated History of America's Most Storied Woman

Magnificent art complements an unvarnished history of the Statue of Liberty and its relationship to immigration policy in the United States throughout the years.What began in 1865 in...

ISBN: 9780823285334

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Roman Catholicism in the United States

A Thematic History

Edited by Margaret M. McGuinness and James T. Fisher

Contributor(s): Jeffrey M. Burns, Roy Domenico, Una Cadegan, Christopher S. Shannon, James McCartin, Chester Gillis, Patrick Allitt, Timothy Matovina, Jeffrey Marlett, Robert Carbonneau, Anthony Smith, Cecilia Moore and Karen Davalos

A collection of essays examining Catholicism in the United States from a variety of perspectives. The volume is divided into three sections: “'Beyond the Parish,' 'Presence in the World,' and 'Prophetic Catholicism'.” Essay topics include: anti-Catholicism, women religious, Latino/a Catholicism, Catholicism and Popular Culture, and Rural Catholcism.

ISBN: 9780823282777

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Delirious Naples

A Cultural History of the City of the Sun

Edited by Pellegrino D'Acierno and Stanislao G. Pugliese

Contributor(s): Theresa Aiello, B. Amore, Andrea Baldi, Angelo Cannavacciuolo, Joseph Connors, Rose DeAngelis, Erri de Luca, John Domini, Simona Frasca, Jonathan Galassi, Fred Gardaphe, Patrizia La Trecchia, Ilaria Marchesi, Simone Marchesi, Nick Napoli, Salvatore Napolitano, Jason Pine, Joseph Rescigno, Gabriella Romani, Gioia Timpanelli, Terrence Ward, Robert Zweig, Valerio Caprara, Francesco Durante, Gregory Pell and Charles Sant'Elia

An encounter with historic and contemporary Naples, in which it presents itself as an irresolvable paradox: acity in economic and political decline, despite its revival in the 1990s, that, nonetheless, produces a vital and profound intellectual life and a brilliant and exuberant artistic, literary and urban culture.

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The Real Fake

Authenticity and the Production of Space

Maria Francesca Piazzoni

The Real Fake explores how the users of Thames Town—an English-like village built in Songjiang New Town near Shanghai—negotiate the notion of authenticity through their everyday social and spatial practices. Piazzoni argues that authenticity underlies the social and physical production of space through both top-down and bottom-up dynamics.

ISBN: 9780823280926

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Boss of Black Brooklyn

The Life and Times of Bertram L. Baker

Ron Howell

Boss of Black Brooklyn presents a riveting and untold story about the struggles and achievements of the first black person to hold public office in Brooklyn. Bertram L. Baker immigrated to...

ISBN: 9780823280995

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Neighborhood Success Stories

Creating and Sustaining Affordable Housing in New York

Carol Lamberg

This book illustrates examples of successful community development on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and in the Bronx, using seven different methods of finance, only one of which is still available today. The buildings were developed between 1975 and 1997.

ISBN: 9780823279203

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Zonas Peligrosas

The Challenge of Creating Safe Neighborhoods in Central America

Tom Hare

Zonas Peligrosas: The Challenge of Creating Safe Neighborhoods in Central America examines indicators of orderliness and security in El Salvador, shows how policies and programs based on disorganization...

ISBN: 9780823280919

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The Hawthorn Archive

Letters from the Utopian Margins

Avery F. Gordon

Creatively explores the utopian elements found in a variety of resistive and defiant activity in the past and in the present, with a focus on the Black Radical Tradition.

ISBN: 9780823276325

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Left Bank of the Hudson

Jersey City and the Artists of 111 1st Street

David J. Goodwin

In the late 1980s, a handful of artists priced out of Manhattan and desperately needing affordable studio space discovered 111 1st Street, a former P. Lorillard Tobacco Company warehouse. Over the...

ISBN: 9780823278039

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A Shot Story

From Juvie to Ph.D.

David Borkowski

David Borkowski was nearly shot to death during a botched robbery when he was 15. Soon before turning 40, he obtained a Ph.D. in Literature and Rhetoric from the CUNY Graduate School. He is now a Professor of English. A Shot Story describes that journey.

ISBN: 9780823278749

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Postcards from Rio

Favelas and the Contested Geographies of Citizenship

Kátia da Costa Bezerra

New Postcards from Rio de Janeiro examines the interconnections between notions of citizenship and space in the works of favela-based cultural producers. It argues that the emphasis on the favela daily life generates an aesthetic of representation involved in the rewriting of the city as part of a process of political resistance and affirmation of difference.

ISBN: 9780823276554

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Before the Fires

An Oral History of African American Life in the Bronx from the 1930s to the 1960s

Mark D. Naison and Bob Gumbs

People associate the South Bronx with gangs, violence, drugs, crime, burned-out buildings, and poverty. This is the message that has been driven into their heads over the years by the media. As Howard...

ISBN: 9780823273539

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City of Gods

Religious Freedom, Immigration, and Pluralism in Flushing, Queens

R. Scott Hanson

City of Gods is a history and ethnography of Flushing, Queens in New York City. An important site in colonial America for its place in the history of religious freedom, Flushing is now perhaps the most striking case of religious and ethnic pluralism in the world—and an ideal place to explore how America's long experiment with religious freedom, immigration, and religious pluralism began and continues.

ISBN: 9780823271603

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Academics in Action!

A Model for Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Service

Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, Bernadette Doykos, Nina C. Martin and Alison McGuire

Edited by Sandra L. Barnes

This edited volume, Academics in Action! describes a multi-disciplinary model informed by the educational philosophy of John Dewey wherein students and faculty work with communities, learn from them, and combing findings from theory and research to develop solutions to solve community problems. The volume offers innovative examples of community-engaged research, teaching, and service.

ISBN: 9780823268801

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The Ville

Cops and Kids in Urban America, Updated Edition

Greg Donaldson

The Ville follows a year in the life of one rookie cop and one ambitious teenage boy in Brownsville, Brooklyn, called the toughest square mile in America. It takes place during the crack epidemic of the early 1990's.

ISBN: 9780823265671

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Trance Mediums and New Media

Spirit Possession in the Age of Technical Reproduction

Anja Dreschke and Martin Zillinger

Edited by Heike Behrend

This volume explores the interferences of trance mediums and new technical media to add a new perspective to current debates on the “renaissance of the religious“. Situated in the field of media anthropology it follows the question of how spirit possession is transformed by processes of globalization and mass mediation.

ISBN: 9780823253814

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Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh

A Secular Theology for the Global City

Sharon V. Betcher

Spirit and Cosmopolis puts theology on location on the streets of our planet’s cities and articulates philosophical reflection worked through religious values for living amidst the affective dynamics of the street. Precarity ensconced in the postcolonial city is critically exposed. “Crip/tography” names a proposed urban choreography, a calculus based on Spirit’s generosity, that redresses fear and otherwise advances neighbor love.

ISBN: 9780823253913

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The Accidental Playground

Brooklyn Waterfront Narratives of the Undesigned and Unplanned

Daniel Campo

With its detail, depth, compassion and vision Campo's work makes an invaluable contribution to the growing literature on the unplanned and the undesigned spaces and activities in cities today. Highly illustrated and artfully researched, the book will draw readers into a unique space in one of New York City's most popular boroughs.

ISBN: 9780823251865

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As Bad as They Say?

Three Decades of Teaching in the Bronx

Janet Grossbach Mayer

Rundown, vermin-infested buildings. Rigid, slow-to-react bureaucratic systems. Children from broken homes and declining communities. How can a teacher succeed? How does a student not only survive but also come to thrive? It can happen, and As Bad as They Say? tells the heroic stories of Janet Mayer’s students during her 33-year tenure as a Bronx high school teacher.

ISBN: 9780823234172

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South Bronx Rising

The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of an American City

Jill Jonnes

Jill Jonnes’s recounting of the rise, fall, and resurrection of the Bronx has become a classic of urban history. In this new edition, she describes in a new final chapter the extraordinary and...

ISBN: 9780823221998

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In Search of Community

American Parishes

Paul Hanly Furfey

The Common Growl

Upper West Side Catholics

Lady Liberty

Roman Catholicism in the United States

Delirious Naples

The Real Fake

Boss of Black Brooklyn

Neighborhood Success Stories

Zonas Peligrosas

The Hawthorn Archive

Left Bank of the Hudson

A Shot Story

Postcards from Rio

Before the Fires

City of Gods

Academics in Action!

The Ville

Trance Mediums and New Media

Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh

The Accidental Playground

As Bad as They Say?

South Bronx Rising

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