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Drawing on archival material on the Rosary Hour in Athol Springs, New York, it analyzes pressures within a liberal American cultural environment and the role of patriarchal authority supported by society and the Church. 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Stanislaw Hajkowski, S.Chr.\nDirector: Leslie Tentler, Ph.D.\nPreaching the Gospel to the poor has always been emphasized by Christianity and\nthe development of the radio at the beginning of the Twenties created a new, powerful\ntool to use for this task. Many leaders of religious communities noticed in the new\ninvention an opportunity and used radio broadcast to both convert the unbelievers and\nprovide teaching and support to faithful. The historical literature on early twentiethcentury\nradio preachers in the United States includes numerous studies on Protestant and\nCatholic radio preachers; for example, a Protestant minister, S. Parkes Cadman began\nusing radio broadcasts in 1923 and reached an audience of five million and in the 1930s,\na famous radio evangelist, the Roman Catholic priest Father Charles Coughlin, had forty\nmillion listeners tuning in to his programs.\nIn English historical literature very little attention has been given so far to Father\nJustyn Figas, a Conventual Franciscan, who began his broadcasting career in 1926 and,\nby the end of Thirties he had an audience of close to three million listening to his\nbroadcasts. Father Justyn’s programs, delivered in Polish, were addressed mainly to the\nPolish immigrants in the United States. This dissertation examines Father Justyn’s radio\ntalks and questions from the listeners to show the change in the attitudes of the first and\nsecond generation of Polish immigrants in the Thirties towards marriage unity and\nparental authority, the key values of the Christian family. In the new social and cultural\nenvironment the immigrant family acted like a sensitive barometer registering the social,\ncultural and religious pressures of the time.\n\u000f\nAfter analyzing the materials available in the Archives in Athol Springs, New\nYork about Father Justin’s Rosary Hour, this dissertation concludes that the immigrant\nfamily, often based on the patriarchal authority of the father supported by society and the\nChurch, had no chance of surviving in the liberal American cultural environment.\nHowever, the values of parental authority and marriage unity were still practiced by these\nimmigrant individuals and families who absorbed into their value system an appreciation\nfor “wise” enculturation into the new society and education.\n\u000f\nThis dissertation by Stanislaw Hajkowski, S.Chr. fulfills the dissertation requirement for the\ndoctoral degree in United States Catholic History approved by Leslie Tentler, Ph.D.,\nas Director, and by Christopher Kauffman, Ph.D. and Timothy Meagher, Ph.D. as Readers.\n_______________________________________\nLeslie Tentler, Ph.D., Director\n_______________________________________\nChristopher Kauffman, Ph.D., Reader\n_______________________________________\nTimothy Meagher, Ph.D., Reader\n\u000f\nThe family, which is founded and given life by love, is a community of persons: of\nhusband and wife, of parents and children, of relatives. Its first task is to live with fidelity\nthe reality of communion in a constant effort to develop an authentic community of\npersons.\nThe inner principle of that task, its permanent power and its final goal is love: without\nlove the family is not a community of persons and, in the same way, without love the\nfamily cannot live, grow and perfect itself as a community of persons.\nApostolic Exhortation\nFamiliaris Consortio\nJohn Paul II\n\u000f\nTable of Contents\nForeword…………………………………………………………………………. v","cbCaibpiMFx98A6a","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibpiMFx98A6a","docx",540990,983,"English","# Foreword\n# A Stepping Stone: The Polish emigrants in Northwest England & their religious culture\n## Summary\n# Father Justyn and the Rosary Hour: An overview of the role of the Rosary Hour and its founder\n## Father Justyn and his audience\n## The beginning of a broadcasting career\n## Themes of the new Radio program\n## Overview of the radio topics until 1940\n## Mechanics and structure of the radio program\n## Threats to the family and community\n## External threats\n## Internal threats\n## Summary\n# Vision of the Polish family: Reconstructing of the family in the American environment 1931-1932\n## Faith as a family value\n## Feedback from the radio listeners\n## Questions regarding faith\n## Marriage unity\n## Questions regarding divorce\n## Questions regarding mixed marriages\n## Parental authority\n## Questions related to the problem of parental authority\n## Patriotism\n## Questions related to patriotism\n## Work\n## Questions related to work\n## Soberness\n## Questions related to soberness\n## Summary\n# Faith and marriage: Reinforcing the Christian values among the Polish-Americans\n## Faith\n## Superstition\n## Marriage unity\n## Summary\n# Gender: Family threats and alterations in the woman’s traditional roles\n## Divorce","[{\"question\":\"What is the main subject of the dissertation?\",\"answer\":\"It examines Father Justyn’s Polish-language radio talks and the questions listeners sent, focusing on changes in attitudes toward marriage unity and parental authority among Polish immigrant families in the 1930s.\"},{\"question\":\"Which source material does the dissertation rely on?\",\"answer\":\"It analyzes available archival materials in Athol Springs, New York, related to Father Justyn’s Rosary Hour, alongside the structure and themes of the radio broadcasts.\"},{\"question\":\"What conclusion does the dissertation reach about immigrant families in the liberal American environment?\",\"answer\":\"It concludes that immigrant families—often rooted in patriarchal authority supported by society and the Church—had little chance of surviving in the liberal American cultural environment, even though valued practices continued through enculturation and education.\"}]","The Cultural Transition and the Attitudes of Polish Immigrant Families Towards Divorce and Parental Authority in the United States, 1931-1940 | DOCX",1788328484,344]