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No Closure : Catholic Practice and Boston's Parish Shutdowns.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (323 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674061316
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No ClosureDDC classification:
  • 254/.02
LOC classification:
  • BX1417
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Closings -- 1. The Pasts Living in People -- 2. Divergent Histories: Change and the Making of Resistors, 1950-2004 -- 3. "What do we have?" Locales and Objects in the Hands of the People of God -- 4. "This is unrest territory": Orthodoxy and Opposition in Resistors' Practice of the Parish -- 5. Openings -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: In 2004 the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston announced plans to close more than eighty churches. Distraught parishioners occupied several of these buildings in opposition to the decrees. Seitz tells the stories of these resisting Catholics in their own words, illuminating how they were drawn to reconsider the past and its meanings.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Closings -- 1. The Pasts Living in People -- 2. Divergent Histories: Change and the Making of Resistors, 1950-2004 -- 3. "What do we have?" Locales and Objects in the Hands of the People of God -- 4. "This is unrest territory": Orthodoxy and Opposition in Resistors' Practice of the Parish -- 5. Openings -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

In 2004 the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston announced plans to close more than eighty churches. Distraught parishioners occupied several of these buildings in opposition to the decrees. Seitz tells the stories of these resisting Catholics in their own words, illuminating how they were drawn to reconsider the past and its meanings.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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