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A New York City ethnography that explores men's unique approaches to Catholic devotionEvery Saturday, and sometimes on weekday evenings, a group of men in old clothes can be found in the basement of the Shrine Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Each year the parish hosts the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and San Paolino di Nola. Its crowning event is the Dance of the Giglio, where the men lift a seventy-foot tall, four-ton tower through the streets, bearing its weight on their shoulders. Drawing on six years of research, Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada reveals the making of this Italian American tower, as the men work year-round to prepare for the Feast. She argues that by paying attention to this behind-the-scenes activity, largely overlooked devotional practices shed new light on how men embody and enact their religiosity in sometimes unexpected ways. Lifeblood of the Parish evocatively and accessibly presents the sensory and material world of Catholicism in Brooklyn, where religion is raucous and playful. Maldonado-Estrada here offers a new lens through which to understand men's religious practice, showing how men and boys become socialized into their tradition and express devotion through unexpected acts like painting, woodworking, fundraising, and sporting tattoos. These practices, though not usually considered religious, are central to the ways the men she studied embodied their Catholic identity and formed bonds to the church.

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) --- Masculinity --- Catholic men --- Italian American Catholics --- Religious life and customs. --- Religious aspects --- Catholic Church. --- Religious life --- New York (State) --- Social life and customs. --- Paulinus, --- Cult --- Shrine Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.) --- Catholic Church --- Customs and practices. --- Williamsburg (New York, N.Y) --- Church history. --- Backstage. --- Body. --- Brooklyn. --- Catholic diversity. --- Catholic parish. --- Catholic practice. --- Catholic. --- Catholicism. --- Dance of the Giglio. --- Embodied ethnography. --- Embodiment. --- Ethnic enclave. --- Ethnicity. --- Ethnography. --- Fatherhood. --- Fundraising. --- Gender and life stage. --- Gender. --- Gentrification. --- Giglio. --- Homosociality. --- Italian-American. --- Labor. --- Manhood. --- Masculinities. --- Masculinity. --- Material culture. --- Mayor Bloomberg. --- Money. --- Neighborhood change. --- Our Lady of Mount Carmel. --- Parish. --- Positionality. --- Race. --- Reflexivity. --- Religion and boundary-making. --- Religion and business. --- Ritual. --- Robert Moses. --- Saint Paulinus. --- Saints. --- Self-made man. --- Sexuality. --- Tattoos. --- Urban renewal. --- Williamsburg, Brooklyn. --- Williamsburg. --- Williamsburg (New York, N.Y.)

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Carmelites. --- Carmelites --- Calced Carmelites --- Carmelitani dell' antica osservanza --- Carmelitas --- Carmelitas de la Antigua Observancia --- Hermanos de la Bienaventurada Virgen María del Monte Carmelo --- Karmeliten --- O. Carm. --- Order of Carmelites --- Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel --- Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel --- Ordo Fratrum Beatae Mariae Virginis de Monte Carmelo --- Ordre de la Bienheureuse Vierge Marie du Mont Carmel --- Orde der Broeders en Zusters van O.L. Vrouw van de Berg Karmel --- Ordem do Carmo --- Carmel, Our Lady of Mount --- Carmelite Nuns --- Discalced Carmelite Nuns --- Discalced Carmelites --- Discalced Carmelites (Italian Congregation) --- Discalced Carmelites (Spanish Congregation)

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Of the various commentaries on the Rule of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel (the Carmelite Rule), that by John Soreth, Prior General of the Carmelites from 1451 to 1471, and commonly known as the Expositio paraenetica, has a special place in the history of Carmelite spirituality and, more broadly, is of particular interest as an expression of some of the trends in Western Christian spirituality in the last half of the fifteenth century. This new volume in the Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis makes available not only the text of the commentary of Soreth based on near-contemporary manuscripts of the last quarter of the 15th century, but also the text of the Carmelite Rule that purports to be a copy of the now lost, original regula bullata, found in the bull of Pope Innocent IV, Quae honorem Conditoris of 1 October 1247, and preserved at the time Soreth wrote his commentary in the Carmelite monastery in Cologne. What is known today as the Carmelite Rule was given originally, and in a slightly different form, as a uitaeformula to a group of anonymous hermits residing on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land by St. Albert of Vercelli, sometime during the period when he was Patriarch of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, between 1206 and 1214. The text of the Rule found in the Bull of Pope Innocent IV incorporated adaptations to the uitaeformula made necessary by the situation the Carmelites found themselves in after having started to move back to the West in around 1238. The Carmelites continued to live on Mount Carmel until 1291, the date of the fall of Acre, the last remaining major stronghold of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. In addition to giving a critical edition of Soreth’s text, the volume is of significance in that it comprehensively identifies the immediate sources of Soreth’s commentary, especially the various florilegia and compilationes used by him in creatively weaving a text grounded predominantly in the works of classical Christian spirituality. The commentary, primarily exhortatory in style, hence the designation of this work as an expositio paraenetica, relies heavily on Bernard of Clairvaux. It thus needs to be seen as an integral part of Soreth’s own reforming activity of the Carmelites.

Christian religious orders --- Carmelites --- Soreth, Jean, --- Carmelites. --- Rules --- Early works to 1800. --- Spiritual life. --- 271.73-4 --- 271.73-4 Karmelieten: stichting; regels --- Karmelieten: stichting; regels --- Carmelite Nuns --- Discalced Carmelite Nuns --- Discalced Carmelites --- Discalced Carmelites (Italian Congregation) --- Discalced Carmelites (Spanish Congregation) --- Calced Carmelites --- Carmelitani dell' antica osservanza --- Carmelitas --- Carmelitas de la Antigua Observancia --- Hermanos de la Bienaventurada Virgen María del Monte Carmelo --- Karmeliten --- O. Carm. --- Order of Carmelites --- Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel --- Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel --- Ordo Fratrum Beatae Mariae Virginis de Monte Carmelo --- Ordre de la Bienheureuse Vierge Marie du Mont Carmel --- Orde der Broeders en Zusters van O.L. Vrouw van de Berg Karmel --- Ordem do Carmo --- Carmel, Our Lady of Mount --- Rules. --- Manuscripts. --- Carmes --- Règles

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Carmelites --- History --- 271.3 <44> --- 271.971 --- Franciskanen. Minderbroeders--Frankrijk --- Karmelitessen --- -Calced Carmelites --- Carmelitani dell' antica osservanza --- Carmelitas --- Carmelitas de la Antigua Observancia --- Hermanos de la Bienaventurada Virgen María del Monte Carmelo --- Karmeliten --- O. Carm. --- Order of Carmelites --- Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel --- Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel --- Ordo Fratrum Beatae Mariae Virginis de Monte Carmelo --- Ordre de la Bienheureuse Vierge Marie du Mont Carmel --- Orde der Broeders en Zusters van O.L. Vrouw van de Berg Karmel --- Ordem do Carmo --- Carmel, Our Lady of Mount --- Carmelite Nuns --- Discalced Carmelite Nuns --- Discalced Carmelites --- Discalced Carmelites (Italian Congregation) --- Discalced Carmelites (Spanish Congregation) --- -History --- 271.971 Karmelitessen --- 271.3 <44> Franciskanen. Minderbroeders--Frankrijk --- Calced Carmelites --- Carmelite nuns --- France --- Congresses --- 2713 <44> --- 271971 --- Franciskanen Minderbroeders--Frankrijk. --- Karmelitessen. --- CARMES CHAUSSES ET DECHAUSSES --- CARMELITES --- FRANCE --- HISTOIRE

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Carmelites --- History --- 271.73 <082> --- Karmelieten--Feestbundels. Festschriften --- 271.73 <082> Karmelieten--Feestbundels. Festschriften --- Calced Carmelites --- Carmelitani dell' antica osservanza --- Carmelitas --- Carmelitas de la Antigua Observancia --- Hermanos de la Bienaventurada Virgen María del Monte Carmelo --- Karmeliten --- O. Carm. --- Order of Carmelites --- Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel --- Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel --- Ordo Fratrum Beatae Mariae Virginis de Monte Carmelo --- Ordre de la Bienheureuse Vierge Marie du Mont Carmel --- Orde der Broeders en Zusters van O.L. Vrouw van de Berg Karmel --- Ordem do Carmo --- Carmel, Our Lady of Mount --- Carmelite Nuns --- Discalced Carmelite Nuns --- Discalced Carmelites --- Discalced Carmelites (Italian Congregation) --- Discalced Carmelites (Spanish Congregation) --- History. --- Smet, Joachim