Robert A Orsi: 2 books
Between Heaven and Earth
The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Between Heaven and Earth explores the relationships men, women, and children have formed with the Virgin Mary and the saints in twentieth-century American Catholic history, and reflects, more broadly, on how people live in the company of sacred figures and how these relationships shape the ties between...
by Robert A. Orsi
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Honorable Mention, PROSE Award A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year A Junto Favorite Book of the Year Beginning with metaphysical debates in the sixteenth century over the nature of Christ’s presence in the host, the distinguished historian and scholar of religion Robert Orsi imagines...