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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Abby Day |
ISBN: | 9780198739586 0198739583 |
OCLC Number: | 990163334 |
Description: | ix, 257 Seiten |
Contents: | SECTION I: ROOTS AND BRANCHES; SECTION II: HOLY WOMEN; SECTION II: TIES THAT BIND: THE PEW OF POWER OF GENERATION A |
Responsibility: | Abby Day. |
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This book is essential reading for anyone interested in modern Anglican church life or what may be its future. * Richard J. Mammana, is the archivist of the Living Church Foundation, The Living Church * [Abby Day] presents an outstanding ethnography of the dwindling generation of laywomen, now mostly in their eighties or nineties, whose unobtrusive devotion to the Anglican/Episcopal tradition has kept parish churches serviced and surviving ... Day avoids sentimentality, but conveys a sense of loss. Her findings add to the headaches that trouble the Church of England's current leaders. * Jonathan Benthall, Times Literary Supplement * Abby Day gives empathic visibility to the under-appreciated generation of older lay women whose heart and spirit have sustained Anglicanism amid the sweep of institutional and societal change. * Michele Dillon, University of New Hampshire, Author (with Paul Wink) of In the Course of a Lifetime: Tracing Religious Belief, Practice, and Change * Read more...

