Scott Dunkley Oral History

Title

Scott Dunkley Oral History

Subject

Orthodox Church in America
Conversion
Mixed-religion households
Immigration and emmigration

Description

Oral history with Scott Dunkley, conducted by Lev Smyth in Kansas City, Kansas on April 23rd, 2018. This interview is conducted with Scott Dunkley, a parishioner of Holy Trinity Orthodox Church, an OCA (Orthodox Church in America) Church in Overland Park, Kansas. Scott discusses the appeal of conversion to Eastern Orthodoxy, his own conversion experiences in the midwest, and the experience of living in a mixed-religious home. Scott touches very frequently on how being a convert has shaped his family life and the lives of his children. This interview also touches on the conversion experiences of immigrants. This interview was conducted for the Religion in Kansas Project as part of semester-long internship with the University of Kansas Department of Religious Studies.

Source

Religion in Kansas Project

Publisher

Department of Religious Studies, University of Kansas

Date

April 23, 2018

Contributor

Oral histories created by University of Kansas students, staff and faculty as part of the Religion in Kansas Project are archived in KU ScholarWorks, the digital repository of the University of Kansas.

Rights

All oral histories in the Religion in Kansas Project are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 Unported License.

Format

m4a

Language

en_US

Type

Recording, oral

Identifier

Scott_Dunkley-Interview_3.m4a

Original Format

Interview

Duration

40:32:00

Interviewer

Lev Smyth

Interviewee

Scott Dunkley

Citation

“Scott Dunkley Oral History,” Religion in Kansas Project, accessed April 19, 2024, https://ksreligion.omeka.net/items/show/4391.