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Title: Nicholas Piediscalzi collection
Identifier/Call Number: ARC Mss 16
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Physical Description:
22.5 linear feet
(18 cartons)
Creator:
Piediscalzi, Nicholas
Date (inclusive): 1964-2007
Date (bulk): circa 1980s-1990s
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.
Physical Location: Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
The collection is open for research.
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.
[Identification of Item], Nicholas Piediscalzi collection, ARC Mss 16. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa
Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Gift via Nicholas Piediscalzi, 2009.
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).
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.
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
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Channeling (Spiritualism)
Religion in the public schools
Religion -- Study and teaching
Religious education
Articles
Audiocassettes
Curricula
Lecture notes
Newsletters
Notebooks
Printed materials (object genre)
Project manuals
Reports
Piediscalzi, Nicholas -- Archives
Pursel, Jach
Lazaris, (Spirit)
Wright State University. Department of Religion
Wright State University. Public Education Religion Studies Center