Pastoral Psychology
Volume 60, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 551-561

Italian-American immigrants and Religious Conversions (Article)

Mercadante L.A.
  • a The Methodist Theological School in Ohio, 3081 Columbus Pike, Delaware, OH 43015, United States

Abstract

In spite of significant efforts by American Protestants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century to convert the huge influx of Italian immigrants, their results were disappointing for a variety of theological, psychological and sociological reasons. This confluence of immigration, religious conversion and mission has received scant attention, even though it offers an object lesson for contemporary immigration and conversion studies. © 2010 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

Author Keywords

Religious conversion immigrants Italian-American Theology

Index Keywords

[No Keywords available]
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-79960031694&doi=10.1007%2fs11089-010-0304-9&partnerID=40&md5=5a9a696076f824134a6f47c50aeaa4b2
DOI: 10.1007/s11089-010-0304-9
ISSN: 00312789
Cited by: 1
Original Language: English