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No Closure

Catholic Practice and Boston's Parish Shutdowns

  • Introduction: Closings
  • 1. The Pasts Living in People
  • 2. Divergent Histories: Change and the Making of Resistors, 1950–2004
  • 3. “What do we have?” Locales and Objects in the Hands of the People of God
  • 4. “This is unrest territory”: Orthodoxy and Opposition in Resistors’ Practice of the Parish
  • 5. Openings
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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