Church alive! : pilgrimages in faith, 1956-2006 /
Here the author has turned his anthropological, theological, historical and philosophical education, as well as his personal experience, to writing the living history of three Jesuit parishes on the North Shore of Sydney Harbour for the years 1956 to 2006. This book is an ethnographic history of the...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Sydney :
UNSW Press,
2006.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=174766 |
| Summary: | Here the author has turned his anthropological, theological, historical and philosophical education, as well as his personal experience, to writing the living history of three Jesuit parishes on the North Shore of Sydney Harbour for the years 1956 to 2006. This book is an ethnographic history of the prophetic imagination among ordinary believers in times of great religious change. It is a narrative about behaviour, symbols, rituals, sacred spaces, sacred times, that tells of the cultural system within them. The broader context of post-Vatican II Catholicism and a religion that led the communit. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (292 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (chiefly color), color portraits |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-285) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781429455633 1429455632 9780868400501 0868400505 9780868408439 0868408433 |