| Beyond Memory: Italian Protestants in Italy and America Contributor(s): Barone, Dennis (Author) |
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ISBN: 1438462158 ISBN-13: 9781438462158 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - Protestant - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration |
| Dewey: 280.408 |
| LCCN: 2016005976 |
| Series: Suny Italian/American Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 9.1" (0.90 lbs) 194 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian - Cultural Region - Italy - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Ethnic Orientation - Italian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Beyond Memory, Dennis Barone uncovers the richness and diversity of the Italian Protestant experience and places it in the context of migration and political and social life in both Italy and the United States. Italian Protestants have received scant attention in the fields of Italian American studies, religious studies, and immigration studies, and through literary sources, church records, manuscript sources, and secondary sources in various fields, Barone introduces such forgotten voices as the Baptist Antonio Mangano, the Methodist Antonio Arrighi, and his great-grandfather Alfredo Barone, a Baptist minister to congregations in Italy and Massachusetts. Examining the complex histories of these and other Italian Protestants, Barone argues that Protestantism ultimately served as a means to negotiate between Old World and New World ways, even as it resulted in the double alienation of rejection by Roman Catholic immigrants and condescension by Anglo-Protestants. Though the book focuses on the years of high immigration (1890-1920), it also looks at precursors to post-reunification Protestants as well as Protestants in Italy today, now that the nation has become a country of in-migration. |