DigBoston is Boston’s only alternative weekly publication. They have covered local news, arts, music, sex, food, movies and shopping in a lively, funny, incisive and, most importantly, dead honest style since 1999. Distribution includes a print biweekly with more than 40,000 readers, with drop-off spots from the North Shore to the South Shore and a focus on Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville, as well as robust online and email newsletter presence. The readership spans young people to older progressives who have been consuming alternative weeklies since the days of the Boston Phoenix and the Real Paper.
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The Church to Luxury Condo Pipeline
23 September 2021
co-written by Sacred Writes’ media partner
Dr. Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada
Current media partnership fellow
Dr. Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada
Religious Architecture and Sacred Space
Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada is Assistant Professor of Religion at Kalamazoo College where she teaches classes on religion and masculinity, Catholics in the Americas, urban religion, and religions of Latin America. She is an ethnographer and her research focuses on material culture, Catholicism, and embodiment. She is the author of Lifeblood of the Parish: Men and Catholic Devotion in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (NYU Press, 2020), an ethnography about masculinity and men’s devotional lives in a gentrified neighborhood in New York City. Maldonado-Estrada is currently working on a project about devotional technologies that explores Catholic entrepreneurs and innovation. She is editor of the journal Material Religion: The Journal of Art, Objects, and Belief and co-chair of the Men and Masculinities Unit at the American Academy of Religion. She serves on the editorial board of the journal American Religion and was chosen for 2020-2022 cohort of Young Scholars in American Religion at IUPUI’s Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Religion from Princeton University and her B.A. in Sociology and Religion from Vassar College. Follow her on Twitter @emoprofessor.
