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- Publisher
- SAGE
- Copyright
- © 2010 Forum Italicum
- ISSN
- 0014-5858
- eISSN
- 2168-989X
- DOI
- 10.1177/001458581004400107
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
This essay discusses the complex history of Italian American Protestants, especially during the peak years of immigration. Through the use of a wide variety of sources including spiritual autobiographies, archival material, and Italian American fiction, I argue that Protestantism became a means to negotiate old world and new world ways more than it resulted in the double alienation of rejection by Catholic immigrants and condescension by Anglo-Protestants. Italian American Protestants retained a sense of Italianita at the same time that they became American.
Journal
Forum Italicum : A Journal of Italian Studies – SAGE
Published: Mar 1, 2010