Seitz, John C.

No closure Catholic practice and Boston's parish shutdowns / [electronic resource] : John C. Seitz. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (314 p.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: closings -- The pasts living in people -- Divergent histories: change and the making of resistors, 1950-2004 -- "What do we have?": locales and objects in the hands of the people of God -- "This is unrest territory:" orthodoxy and opposition in resistors' practice of the parish -- Openings.

9780674061316 (electronic bk.) 0674061314 (electronic bk.)


Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Boston (Mass.) --History.


Church closures--History--Massachusetts--Boston--21st century.
Parishes--History.--Massachusetts--Boston
RELIGION / Christian Church / Administration


Boston (Mass.)--Church history.


Electronic books.

BX1417.B6 / S45 2011eb

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