First communion
Subtitle: ritual, church and popular religious identity
By: Peter McGrail.
Series: Liturgy, worship, and society
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780754657415
Subjects: First communion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-195) and index.
Table of contents: title: First communion until the eve of Quam Singulari; title: The Eucharist in English published texts (1568-1910); title: The implementation of the decree Quam Singulari in England (1910-11); title: The shifting social and religious context for the celebration of first communion across the twentieth century; title: First communion as sacrament of initiation in Vatican II; title: The ethnography of first communion; title: Discourses of meaning on the ground; title: Power and conflict in the preparation for first communion; title: Different ritual patterns in the first communion mass; title: First communion and consumption.