Greeks in America - eBooks4Greeks.gr

:INTRODUCTIONThe New American Series consists of studies ofthe following racial groups, together with a studyof the Eastern Orthodox ChurchesAlbanian and Bulgarian, Armenian and Assyrian-Chaldean, Czecho-Slovak, Greek, Italian, Jewish,Jugo-Slav (Croatian, Servian, Slovenian), Magyar,Polish, Kussian and Euthenian, or Ukrainian, Spanish(Spaniards) and Portuguese, Syrian.Those studies, made under the auspices of theInterchurch World Movement, were undertaken toshow, in brief outline, the social, economic and religiousbackground, European or Asiatic, of eachgroup and to present the experience—social, economicand religious—of the particular group inAmerica, with special reference to the contact ofthe given people with religious institutions inAmerica.It was designed that the studies should be sympatheticbut critical.It is confidently believed that this series will helpAmerica to appreciate and appropriate the spiritualwealth represented by the vast body of New Americans,each group having its own peculiar heritageand potentialities ; and will lead Christian America,so far as she will read them, to become a better loverof mankind.The writer, in each case, is a kinsman or has haddirect and intimate relationship with the people, orgroup of peoples, presented. First hand knowledgeand the ability to study and write from a deeply