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Holy Cards/Immaginette Holy Cards/Immaginette: The Extraordinary Literacy of Vernacular Religion Author(s): Diana George and Mariolina Rizzi Salvatori Source: College Composition and Communication, Vol. 60, No. 2 (Dec., 2008), pp. 250-284 Published by: National Council of Teachers of English Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20457060 . Accessed: 11/02/2014 15:03 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. National Council of Teachers of English is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to College Composition and Communication. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 128.173.125.76 on Tue, 11 Feb 2014 15:03:39 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions DianaGeorge andMariolina Rizzi Salvatori HolyCards/Immaginette: TheExtraordinary Literacyof Vernacular Religion Like other seeminglyordinary materials (cookbooks, street art, scrapbooks, etc.) the subject of our investigation-holy cards or (in Italian) immaginette-often functionas rich repositoriesof personal and culturalmemory as well as indicatorsof popular lit eracypractices. But to relegate them to the categoryof ephemera, as iscustomary with materials of this sort,diverts attention fromtheir significant cultural and pedagogical value. In our attempt to foregroundthe complex nature and functionof these artifacts, we have foundmuch of the scholarship on vernacular ormaterial religionand everyday culture particularlyhelpful. In theirattention towhat popular culture scholar David Morgan has called "objects thathave notmattered inmost historical accounts;' these areas of studyhave lent support to our "understandingof the[ir]power and meaning" (xi).Yet, it is literacystudies thathas enabled us to cast lighton and to articulate their intricate,extraordinary pedagogical workings. At the same time, these humble arti facts have enabled us to criticallyre-approach and put pressure on some of themost commonplace articulationsof literacy.Our goal then is todemonstrate that these seem ingly"ordinary objects" are significantcultural and historical signifiersand thatas such theycan contribute to a fullerunderstanding of the common literacypractices of ver nacular religion. CCC 60:2 /DECEMBER 2008 250 This content downloaded from 128.173.125.76 on Tue, 11 Feb 2014 15:03:39 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions GEORGE AND SALVATORI / HOLY CARDS/IMMAGINETTE Holy cards: smallprintedcards containingpioussentiments or depictingpopular religiousfigures. Widely distributed after the adventofprinting, the cards are used as mementosof religious events,to foster a particulardevotion, or as a means of remembrance,e.g.,for a deceasedperson. The subjectmatter is diversebut some tendtoward the sentimental. -Richard P.McBrien, general editor, The HarperCollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism O ur understanding of literacy practices and our appreciation of the texts that engender and sustain them have, in the past twenty-fiveyears, extended farbeyond the classroom. Literacy has been tied to parents' storytelling,work place rules, and street games, towomen's clubs and Bible study groups (see, for example, Heath; Cintron; Gere; Brandt; Daniell). Its operations have been traced through the intelligent and inventive uses of "texts" as varied as sale catalogs and work manuals, cereal boxes and street signs, recipes, prayer books, and ex-votos (Salvatori). Literacy studies in this vein have directed scholars' atten tion both to an expanded notion ofwhat constitutes a text (and its inherent significance) and to a reconsideration ofwhat comprises an archive (see, for example, Carr, Carr, and Schultz). The subject of our investigation here-holy cards or, in Italian, immaginette (also called santini)1-bears out the signifi cance of this shift, for just as such seemingly ephemeral materials as cook books, street art, or scrapbooks reveal the workings of everyday literacy practices (see Trimbur), so too does thematerial culture of religion and reli gious practice. Holycards/immaginette are small,mass-produced, wallet-sized cards that have been, and still are, a significantmarker of "growing up Catholic." Inmany respects they represent, and have been used as, the people's Lives of the Saints, the child's first lesson in orthodoxy and everydaymanners, art for themasses, a modern version of the Bible of the illiterate.Despite the adjective "holy" and although they are often treated by the devout as placeholders for the sacred, holy cards are not really sacred objects. They are, instead, aids toworship, re minders of the sacraments and of themodel lives of saints and other hallowed figures.More than that, as we show here, they can be understood and often function as rich and cherished repositories of personal and culturalmemory both visual and verbal (Figure 1). In our attempt to foreground the complex nature and function of these artifacts, we have found much of the scholarship on vernacular or material religion and everyday culture particularly helpful. In their attention towhat 251 This content downloaded from 128.173.125.76 on Tue, 11 Feb 2014 15:03:39 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions CCC 60:2 / DECEMBER 2008 popular culture scholar David Morgan has called "objects that have not mat tered inmost historical accounts: these areas of study have lent support to our "understandingof the[ir]power and meaning" (xi). Yet, it is literacy studies that has enabled us to cast lighton these artifacts and to articulate their intricate, extraordinarypedagogical workings. At the same time, these humble artifacts have enabled us to critically re-approach and put pressure on some of the most commonplacearticulations of literacy. t Our goal then is to demonstrate thatthese seemingly "ordinary objects" a cultural .a: .aaresignificant and historical signifiers and that as such they can con tribute to a fuller understanding of the common literacy practices of vernacu lar religion. Though we examine the role of holy cards in general as tools of popu | ~ a7'i~..,PzX_A lar piety and cultural literacy,we limit our visual analysis to holy cards/ Fig.1.Typical assortment of holy cards still available in religious immaginette of Mary, "the Perfect goodsstores Mother,"'specifically to the teaching function they have been (and are) as signed, and to the power and meaning they carry.What is it,we ask, about these particular "teaching aids" that has placed them among the kinds of ar ticles of faithVatican II has tried to control or, at the very least, downplay while the cards continue to be mass-produced and sold through religious goods stores, cathedral shops, and religious communities? What do these small ob jects promote, signify,or teach that is unsettling to the Church? What is the Church trying to control and how has that control been historically exercised? Ours are questions not isolated in religion or unrelated to popular literacyprac tice. They foreground a tension between hierarchy or dogma and the people's appropriation and use of objects meant to guide them. As we embarked on this project, the two of us began with memories from school and familyand with artifacts-the holy cards and immaginette we had 252 This content downloaded from 128.173.125.76 on Tue, 11 Feb 2014 15:03:39 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions GEORGE AND SALVATORI / HOLY CARDS/IMMAGINETTE held cautiously,even secretly,for many years. The firstdifficulty we encoun teredwhen we began toextend our personal exchanges into a scholarlyinves tigation was how and where to locate primary materials. As is the case with othermaterials of thissort, holy cards/immaginette are archived in surprising places. Some are,of course,housed in librarieslike Boston College'sJohn J. BurnsLibrary, the Graduate Theological Union inBerkeley-a collectionmade up exclusivelyfrom cards foundbetween thepages of donatedbooks-or DePaul'sVincentia Collection; and inprivate collections like those of Brent Devitt,Gian Piero Stradella,and FatherEugene Carrella (see, forexample, Dipasqua; Bollig;Petruzzelli), which bulge with tensof thousands of holy cards ofall types.But theyare also collectedmore informally-inshoeboxes, prayer books,and novels;in drawers and long-neglectedpockets and purses.Over time,and aswe asked friends,relatives, colleagues, and acquaintancesfor their memoriesof immaginetteor holy cards, the most beautiful,precious, and odd things have come our way-from a green scapular to contemporary cards de picting Jesus as a sports hero, to rare, early versions of holy cards, to more traditionalprayer and memorial cards fromfamily, friends, colleagues, and elementaryschool teachers.2 In thiscontext, the question of how toread them, ofhow people fromdifferent educational and religiouscontexts engage and evaluatethem, became more pressing. We begin,then, with a considerationof holycards/immaginette as an expressionof what isconsidered the least intel lectualaspect of Catholic religion-the physical nature of faithand themany traditionsand issuestheir materiality raises for institutional religion. Holy Cards/lmmaginette:"Some Tend toward the Sentimental" Popular religiosity,ofcourse,
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