When: February 23 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm- Where: Montclair State University, 1 Normal Avenue, Montclair, NJ, USA 07043, Montclair, NJ 07043. RSVP by Feb. 21st on Inserra Website

Join us for a book presentation by Joseph Sciorra. Joseph Sciorra’s Built with Faith offers a place-centric, ethnographic study of the religious material culture of New York City’s Italian American Catholics.

Sciorra spent thirty-five years researching these community art forms and interviewing Italian immigrant and U.S.-born Catholics. By documenting the folklife of this group, Sciorra reveals how Italian Americans in the city use expressive culture and religious practices to transform everyday urban space into unique, communal sites of ethnically infused religiosity.