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BL
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969566
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b723936
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| Main Entry
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Dening, Greg.
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| Title & Author
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Church alive! : : pilgrimages in faith, 1956-2006 /\ Greg Dening.
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| Publication Statement
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Sydney :: UNSW Press,, 2006.
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1 online resource (292 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) :: illustrations (chiefly color), color portraits
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| ISBN
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0868400505
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: 1429455632
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: 9780868400501
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: 9781429455633
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-285) and index.
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| Contents
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A Prefatory Note; Prologue: The Spirit at Work; 1 Living History; 2 Triumph 1956; Reflection: On Religious Change; 3 Hopefulness; Mystery; 4 Breaking Bread; Believing; 5 Word and Song; Celebrating; 6 New Church, New Priest; Priestliness; 7 The Christ and Wo; Calling; 8 The Prophetic Imagination; Ministering; Epilogue: Pilgrim Parish; Acknowledgments; Notes; Notes on the artwork by Anne Kearney; Bibliography; Index.
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| Abstract
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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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St. Francis Xavier's Church (Lavender Bay, N.S.W.)-- History.
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St. Mary's Parish (North Sydney, N.S.W.)-- History.
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Star of the Sea Church (Milsons Point, N.S.W.)-- History.
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St. Francis Xavier's Church (Lavender Bay, N.S.W.)
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St. Mary's Parish (North Sydney, N.S.W.)
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Star of the Sea Church (Milsons Point, N.S.W.)
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Catholics-- Australia-- New South Wales-- History.
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Catholics.
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Christianity.
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Philosophy Religion.
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RELIGION-- Christianity-- Catholic.
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Religion.
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New South Wales, Church history.
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New South Wales.
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| Dewey Classification
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282.9441
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| LC Classification
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BX1688.N6D46 2006eb
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