Peter R D''Agostino
Biographic Data
| ID | 1034967 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter R D''Agostino |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter R |
| FAMILY NAME | D''Agostino |
| SIGNATURE | AGOSTINO P R D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Orthodoxy or Decorum? Missionary Discourse, Religious Representations, and Historical Knowledge
In 1873 an exhausted Catholic priest who had completed a successful mission reported to his bishop. Pleased with his priest's achievement, the bishop mused, "now that they are all in the grace of God, drown them in the river before they lose it." How should we interpret this joke? It plays upon the belief that earthly life pales in importance to life after death. Even a cruel end such as drowning would be a small price to pay for eternal life. Th…
The Scalabrini Fathers, the Italian Emigrant Church, and Ethnic Nationalism in America
Philip Gleason has observed that the Roman Catholic church in the United States has been an "institutional immigrant" for much of its history. The idea of an "institutional immigrant," posed in the Singular and distinguished from "the immigrant peoples who comprised the Catholic population," presupposes a basic if undefined unity to American Catholicism. The nature of that unity has always been a highly contested issue. Gleason's formulation also…
The Scalabrini Fathers, the Italian Emigrant Church, and Ethnic Nationalism in America
Philip Gleason has observed that the Roman Catholic church in the United States has been an "institutional immigrant" for much of its history. The idea of an "institutional immigrant," posed in the Singular and distinguished from "the immigrant peoples who comprised the Catholic population," presupposes a basic if undefined unity to American Catholicism. The nature of that unity has always been a highly contested issue. Gleason's formulation also…
The Scalabrini Fathers, the Italian Emigrant Church, and Ethnic Nationalism in America
Philip Gleason has observed that the Roman Catholic church in the United States has been an "institutional immigrant" for much of its history. The idea of an "institutional immigrant," posed in the Singular and distinguished from "the immigrant peoples who comprised the Catholic population," presupposes a basic if undefined unity to American Catholicism. The nature of that unity has always been a highly contested issue. Gleason's formulation also…
Orthodoxy or Decorum? Missionary Discourse, Religious Representations, and Historical Knowledge
In 1873 an exhausted Catholic priest who had completed a successful mission reported to his bishop. Pleased with his priest's achievement, the bishop mused, "now that they are all in the grace of God, drown them in the river before they lose it." How should we interpret this joke? It plays upon the belief that earthly life pales in importance to life after death. Even a cruel end such as drowning would be a small price to pay for eternal life. Th…
American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Religious studies (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Americanization (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Decorum (1 work) · Demography (1 work) · Ethnic group (1 work)