TY - BOOK ID - 77900450 TI - A history of the English parish : the culture of religion from Augustine to Victoria PY - 2000 SN - 1107115965 1280153555 0511117159 0511019203 0511150520 0511323204 0511496230 0511051271 9780511019203 0511036043 9780511036040 9780511150524 9780511117152 9780521633512 0521633516 9780521633482 0521633486 9780511496233 9786610153558 6610153558 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Parishes KW - Christianity and culture KW - Contextualization (Christian theology) KW - Culture and Christianity KW - Inculturation (Christian theology) KW - Indigenization (Christian theology) KW - Culture KW - Church polity KW - History. KW - England KW - Church history. KW - #VCV monografie 2000 KW - History KW - Paroisses KW - Christianisme et culture KW - Histoire KW - Angleterre KW - Histoire religieuse KW - Arts and Humanities UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77900450 AB - 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. ER -