From The Virgin Mary to a Housewife in Queens: Inside The Seer of Bayside
…ry to be both scholarly and accessible. I hope that anyone interested in Marian apparitions or Catholic culture would find this book enjoyable. As far as a larger scholarly conversation, I hope this book will help steer the study of American religious history away from what has been called a “two-tier” model of religion. Historians like Robert Orsi have argued that scholars have implicitly made a distinction between “true religion” and various sub…
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