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E-Book:	A History of the English Parish : The Culture of Religion from Augustine to Victoria
Edition:	-
Author:	Norman John Greville Pounds
Editor:	CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Publisher:	-
Language:	English
Publication date:	09 Mar 2000
Publication City/Country:	Cambridge United Kingdom
ISBN:	0521633486
ISBN13:	9780521633482
Rating:	4 of 5 stars (Votes: 191)
Original Format:	Hardback 619 pages. 173.99x 246.89x 36.07mm\| 1, 514.99g
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Original Title:	A History of the English Parish : The Culture of Religion from Augustine to Victoria
Most writings on church history have been concerned mainly with church hierarchy, and with theology, liturgy and canon law. This book looks at the church 'from below', from the lowest stratum of its organisation - the parish - in which the church building is seen as the parishioners' handiwork and as a reflection of local popular culture. The book discusses in turn the origin and development of the system of precisely-defined parishes, their function - in terms of economics and personnel - and the church fabric which embodied the aspirations of parishioners, who saw the church more as an expression of their cultural and social hopes than as the embodiment of their faith. The book ends with the failure of the parish to meet all of its obligations - social, governmental and religious - from the late eighteenth century onwards.

A History of the English Parish : The Culture of Religion from Augustine to Victoria