First communion ritual, church and popular religious identity /

Main Author: McGrail, Peter, 1959-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.
Series:Liturgy, worship, and society
Subjects:
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10211254
Table of Contents:
  • First communion until the eve of Quam Singulari
  • The Eucharist in English published texts (1568-1910)
  • The implementation of the decree Quam Singulari in England (1910-11)
  • The shifting social and religious context for the celebration of first communion across the twentieth century
  • First communion as sacrament of initiation in Vatican II
  • The ethnography of first communion
  • Discourses of meaning on the ground
  • Power and conflict in the preparation for first communion
  • Different ritual patterns in the first communion mass
  • First communion and consumption.