Cult and occult in Italian-American culture
essay 1977 Vecoli, Rudolph J.

Italian AmericansNorth 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...