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The Many Meanings of St. Gerard Maiella: Devotional Practices, Symbolic Polyvocality, and Marginality and Difference in Greater Newark, New Jersey

Name: The Many Meanings of St. Gerard Maiella: Devotional Practices, Symbolic Polyvocality, and Marginality and Difference in Greater Newark, New Jersey
Start: 2003-04-17T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2003-04-17T20:00:00-04:00
Location: John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY

Peter Savastano, Seton Hall University

Peter Savastano earned his Ph.D. in Religion and Society from Drew University in Madison. Savastano, a native of Newark, belongs to a family devoted to St. Gerard Maiella for four generations. His talk will explore the role ethnic, sexual, and racial identity plays in shaping personal devotion to St. Gerard in New Jersey for heterosexual Italian Roman Catholics, Italian Roman Catholic gay men, and Haitian Roman Catholics in the greater Newark area. Slides will be shown.

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The Many Meanings of St. Gerard Maiella: Devotional Practices, Symbolic Polyvocality, and Marginality and Difference in Greater Newark, New Jersey