LEADER 03806nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910811022303321 005 20240416153546.0 010 $a0-674-97524-3 010 $a0-674-06131-4 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674061316 035 $a(CKB)2550000000048071 035 $a(OCoLC)754820007 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10491779 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000539570 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11314726 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000539570 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10579744 035 $a(PQKB)11102949 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300956 035 $a(DE-B1597)178257 035 $a(OCoLC)840445348 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674061316 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300956 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10491779 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000048071 100 $a20101004d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNo closure $eCatholic practice and Boston's parish shutdowns /$fJohn C. Seitz 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (323 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-05302-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction: Closings -- $t1. The Pasts Living in People -- $t2. Divergent Histories: Change and the Making of Resisters, 1950-2004 -- $t3. "What do we have?" Locales and Objects in the Hands of the People of God -- $t4. "This is unrest territory:" Authority and Sacrifice in Resisters' Practice of the Parish -- $t5. Openings -- $tEpilogue -- $tNotes -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIndex 330 $aIn 2004 the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston announced plans to close or merge more than eighty parish churches. Scores of Catholics-28,000, by the archdiocese's count-would be asked to leave their parishes. The closures came just two years after the first major revelations of clergy sexual abuse and its cover up. Wounds from this profound betrayal of trust had not healed.In the months that followed, distraught parishioners occupied several churches in opposition to the closure decrees. Why did these accidental activists resist the parish closures, and what do their actions and reactions tell us about modern American Catholicism? Drawing on extensive fieldwork and with careful attention to Boston's Catholic history, Seitz tells the stories of resisting Catholics in their own words, and illuminates how they were drawn to reconsider the past and its meanings. We hear them reflect on their parishes and the sacred objects and memories they hold, on the way their personal histories connect with the history of their neighborhood churches, and on the structures of authority in Catholicism.Resisters describe how they took their parishes and religious lives into their own hands, and how they struggled with everyday theological questions of respect and memory; with relationships among religion, community, place, and comfort; and with the meaning of the local church. No Closure is a story of local drama and pathos, but also a path of inquiry into broader questions of tradition and change as they shape Catholics' ability to make sense of their lives in a secular world. 606 $aChurch closures$zMassachusetts$zBoston$xHistory$y21st century 606 $aParishes$zMassachusetts$zBoston$xHistory 607 $aBoston (Mass.)$xChurch history 615 0$aChurch closures$xHistory 615 0$aParishes$xHistory. 676 $a254/.02 700 $aSeitz$b John C$0271120 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811022303321 996 $aNo closure$93924919 997 $aUNINA