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Converting the Italians: Protestant and Catholic proselytizers in Milwaukee

their languages, literature, and lives: proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the American Italian Historical Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 11-13, 1987Staten Island, New YorkPublished In 1990 • Pages: 245-269

By: Andreozzi, John.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work describes the role of the Catholic Church in Milwaukee, and the manner in which it served as the center of the religious and social life of the Italian American community in that city from approximately the 1880s to the 1980s.Topics discussed in this study are: Italian American and Irish American Catholic relations, the establishment of religious parochial schools, the struggle by Protestant and Catholic proselytizers to convert the immigrants and their children, and the sharp regional differences among the Italian immigrants which tended to undercut the Church as a social institution.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Sociocultural trends
Priesthood
Congregations
Religious denominations
Organized ceremonial
Missions
cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
Italian Americans
HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
2000
RegionThe area the document pertains to
North America
Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
essay
Evaluation
Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
Unknown
Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
4: Excellent Secondary Data
AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
John Beierle ; 1999
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
no date
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
1880s-1980s
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Milwaukee, Wisc., United States
NotesAdditional notes
John Andreozzi
Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-269)
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
90083301
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Italian Americans