Nicholas Piediscalzi collection, 1964-2007, bulk circa 1980s-1990s

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Summary

Creators:
Piediscalzi, Nicholas
Abstract:
Materials collected by Nicholas Piediscalzi about religion and public education issues. Also included are notebooks and audio cassettes pertaining to Lazaris, the "nonphysical being" with whom Jach Pursel claims to communicate.
Extent:
22.5 linear feet (18 cartons)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Identification of Item], Nicholas Piediscalzi collection, ARC Mss 16. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of reports, articles, curricula, books, newsletters, lecture notes, project manuals, audio cassettes and other printed materials collected, and/or created, by Nicholas Piediscalzi, mostly created in the 1980s and 1990s, relating to religion and public education issues. Accompanying books have been cataloged separately. Also included in the collection are 31 notebooks and over 500 audio cassettes pertaining to communications from Lazaris, the "nonphysical entity" whom Jach Pursel claims to channel.

Biographical / historical:

Born in Chicago in 1931, Nicholas Piediscalzi received a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Yale University in 1956. After serving as the campus minister at the University of California at Berkeley for four years, he returned east to attend Boston University to pursue a doctoral degree, which he was awarded in 1965. Shortly after receiving his doctorate, he took a job at the Dayton Campus of Ohio State University (what is now Wright State University). One of his accomplishments was founding the Department of Religion at Wright State University, where he taught for 23 years. He also created the Public Education Religious Studies Center (PERSC).

Acquisition information:
Gift via Nicholas Piediscalzi, 2009.
Arrangement:

The collection is arranged in the following four series:

Series 1. Religion in Education

Series 2. Three Rs Project Material

Series 3. Notes on Lazaris

Series 4. Audiovisual Materials

Physical location:
Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of Item], Nicholas Piediscalzi collection, ARC Mss 16. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Location of this collection:
UC Santa Barbara Library
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
Contact:
(805) 893-3062
special@library.ucsb.edu
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