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Cult and occult in Italian-American cultureessay 1977 • Vecoli, Rudolph J.
Italian Americans • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
This is a brief study of some of the salient features of Italian American religion as it existed in the mid-1970s. Beginning with a description of the folk religion of the CONTADINI (peasants from southern Italy -- the area from which most Italians m...