First communion [electronic resource] : ritual, church and popular religious identity / Peter McGrail.
Series: Liturgy, worship, and societyPublication details: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.Description: 199 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 264/.02036 22
- BX2237 .M37 2007eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-195) and index.
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.
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