Sciorra speaks to students on newly published book

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“Italians in New York have their own vernacular when it comes to religion and expressing their faith,” Dr. Joseph Sciorra, assistant director for academic and cultural programs at Queens College, said.

On Thursday, Nov. 18, Sciorra dazzled many Italian-Americans of the Cabrini College community by explaining to the audience bits and pieces of what his newlyreleased book covers in great detail.

“Built with Faith: Religions and Cultural: Landscapes of Italian-Americans in New York City” is Sciorra’s latest masterpiece that he has been working on for so many years he could not even remember.

“I start a book, get some ideas, jot them down, then come back to it a few years later,” Sciorra said.

Sciorra has many projects that are in the midst of being completed within the next couple of years. One project in particular is one that he is collaborating with Cabrini’s own, Dr. Joseph Primiano.

Sciorra, in his two-hour lecture, described the different ways in which Italian-Americans, in the heart of New York City, profess their faith and beliefs through cultural landscapes. Sciorra categorizes the landscapes into four styles: remembrance, devotional, cartographic, and imagined landscapes.

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