Background
Robert Orsi was born on April 19, 1953, in Bronx, New York, United States.
Robert Orsi
300 Summit St, Hartford, CT 06106, USA
Trinity College where Robert Orsi received a Bachelor of Arts degree.
New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Yale University where Robert Orsi received a Doctor of Philosophy.
Robert Orsi at the Religious Worlds of New York summer institute.
Robert Orsi at the lecture "What is Catholic About the Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis?" on September 29, 2016.
Robert Orsi spoke about the spiritual lives of adult survivors of clerical sexual abuse. Boston College, 2018.
Robert Orsi at Trinity College on February 5, 2016, spoke in the department on “The Problem of Presence in Modern Religion and Its Study,” which is the subject of his forthcoming book, History and Presence.
300 Summit St, Hartford, CT 06106, USA
Trinity College where Robert Orsi received a Bachelor of Arts degree.
New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Yale University where Robert Orsi received a Doctor of Philosophy.
Robert Orsi at the Religious Worlds of New York summer institute.
Robert Orsi at the lecture "What is Catholic About the Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis?" on September 29, 2016.
Robert Orsi spoke about the spiritual lives of adult survivors of clerical sexual abuse. Boston College, 2018.
Robert Orsi at Trinity College on February 5, 2016, spoke in the department on “The Problem of Presence in Modern Religion and Its Study,” which is the subject of his forthcoming book, History and Presence.
(In a masterful evocation of Italian Harlem and the men an...)
In a masterful evocation of Italian Harlem and the men and women who lived there, Robert Orsi examines how the annual festa of the Madonna of 115th Street both influenced and reflected the lives of the celebrants. His prize-winning book offers a new perspective on lived religion, the place of religion in the everyday lives of men, women, and children, the experiences of immigration and community formation, and American Catholicism.
https://www.amazon.com/Madonna-115th-Street-Community-1880-1950/dp/0300157525/?tag=2022091-20
1985
(St. Jude, patron saint of hopeless causes, is the most po...)
St. Jude, patron saint of hopeless causes, is the most popular saint of the American Catholic laity, particularly among women. This fascinating book describes how the cult of St. Jude originated in 1929, traces the rise in Jude's popularity over the next decades, and investigates the circumstances that led so many Catholic women to feel hopeless and to turn to St. Jude for help.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300064764/?tag=2022091-20
1996
(Between Heaven and Earth explores the relationships men, ...)
Between Heaven and Earth explores the relationships men, women, and children have formed with the Virgin Mary and the saints in twentieth-century American Catholic history, and reflects, more broadly, on how people live in the company of sacred figures and how these relationships shape the ties between people on earth. In this boldly argued and beautifully written book, Robert Orsi also considers how scholars of religion occupy the ground in between belief and analysis, faith and scholarship.
https://www.amazon.com/Between-Heaven-Earth-Religious-Scholars-dp-0691049033/dp/0691049033/?tag=2022091-20
2005
(Beginning with metaphysical debates in the sixteenth cent...)
Beginning with metaphysical debates in the sixteenth century over the nature of Christ’s presence in the host, the distinguished historian and scholar of religion Robert Orsi imagines an alternative to the future of religion that early moderns proclaimed was inevitable.
https://www.amazon.com/History-Presence-Robert-Orsi/dp/0674984595/?tag=2022091-20
2016
Robert Orsi was born on April 19, 1953, in Bronx, New York, United States.
Robert Orsi studied at Trinity College where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree. He also studied at Yale University where he received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1982.
Robert Orsi started his career as a professor of religious studies at Fordham University in 1981. He held this post until 1988 and then became a professor at Indiana University Bloomington. In 2001, he left Indiana University and took up a post of a professor of the History of Religion in America at Harvard Divinity School and worked there until 2007. Now he is a professor of religious studies and history at Northwestern University. From 2013 to 2015, Orsi led the seminar for the Young Scholars in American Religion program of the Center for the Study of Religion & American Culture, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis.
Robert Orsi published his first book The Feathered Serpent and the Cross in 1980. Then he published such books as The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950 and Thank You St. Jude: Women’s Devotions to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes. He also was the editor of Gods of the City: Religion and the American Urban Landscape and Divine Mirrors: The Virgin Mary in the Visual Arts. His recent book History and Presence was published in 2016.
Robert Orsi is an American educator and writer who is famous for his books about religion. His most famous books are The Madonna of 115th Street and Thank You, Saint Jude.
Robert Orsi has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He received the John Gilmary Shea Prize and the Jesuit National Book Award for his book The Madonna of 115th Street. In 2010, he received the E. Leroy Hall Award, for Teaching Excellence. In 2012, Professor Orsi was awarded the Charles Deering McCormick Professorship of Teaching Excellence, Northwestern University for a three-year term, 2012-2015. He also received the Merle Curti Award for Thank You, Saint Jude.
(Between Heaven and Earth explores the relationships men, ...)
2005(Beginning with metaphysical debates in the sixteenth cent...)
2016(In a masterful evocation of Italian Harlem and the men an...)
1985(St. Jude, patron saint of hopeless causes, is the most po...)
1996Robert Orsi is a member of the American Academy of Religion and American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was the president of the American Academy of Religion from 2002 to 2003.
