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Foreword (Judith Weisenfeld)
Preface: A Labor of Love (Deborah Dash Moore)
Introduction: Vernacular Religion and the Search for Method in Religious Folklife
PART I RELIGIOUS MATERIAL CULTURE
1 Textures of a Religious Life: The Vernacular Religious Art of Sister Ann Ameen
2 The Vow as Visual Feast: Honoring St. Joseph in Sicilian American Homes
3 Postmodern Sites of Catholic Sacred Materiality
4 Artifacts of Belief: Holy Cards in Roman Catholic Culture
5 Catholiciana Unmoored: Ex-Votos in Catholic Tradition and Their Commercialization as Religious Commodities
PART II DIGNITY IN PHILADELPHIA
6 The Gay God of the City: The Emergence of the Gay and Lesbian Ethnic Parish
7 What Is Vernacular Catholicism? The Dignity Example
8 “I Would Rather Be Fixated on the Lord” Women’s Religion, Men’s Power, and the Dignity Problem
PART III FATHER AND MOTHER DIVINE
9 “The Consciousness of God’s Presence Will Keep You Well, Healthy, Happy, and Singing” The Tradition of Innovation in the Music of Father Divine’s Peace Mission Movement
10 “Bringing Perfection in These Different Places” Father Divine’s Vernacular Architecture of Intention
11 “And as We Dine, We Sing and Praise God” Father and Mother Divine’s Theologies of Food
12 “As a Living Shrine I Came” Remembrance, Creativity, and Paradox in God’s American Tomb
Coda. Encountering the Female Divine . . . Literally: Ethnographic Writing about Mother and Father Divine’s Peace Mission Movement