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Redundancy, community and heritage in the modern Church of England, 1945-2000.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bonnette, Denise, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church closures--England.
- Church closures.
- Anglican church buildings--England.
- Anglican church buildings.
- Church of England.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 273 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland AG, [2023]
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
- Historiography
- Secularisation
- Internal Secularisation
- Community and Belonging
- Heritage
- Sources and Methodology
- The Case Study Counties and Dioceses
- Redundant Churches
- References
- 2. The Church, the State and National Heritage: Contentious Debate
- Early Legislation
- Strengthening the Power of the Church
- Towards a Strategy: Pastoral Measure 1968 (PM1968)
- The 1968 Measure in Action: Tension and Amendment
- Increasing Financial Need
- Conclusion
- 3. The Church as an Institution
- Finance, Ministry, Repair and Redundancy
- Beginning to Adapt: 1940s and 1950s
- Significant Changes: 1960s and 1970s
- Financial Pressures: 1980s and 1990s
- Issues of Maintenance and Repair
- Bureaucratic Delays and Decay
- 4. Community: Cultural and Demographic Change, Reaction and Response
- Urban Change
- Rural Change
- Responding to Socio-Cultural Change
- Community Response to Church Redundancy
- Reaction to the Alternative Use of Church Buildings
- 5. Personal Religiosity: Belonging, Believing and Behaving
- Religious Choice
- Patterns of Belonging
- Patterns of Behaving
- The Impact of Increasing Religious Diversity
- Attitudes to Non-Christian Purchasers of Redundant Churches
- Churchyard Sales
- 6. Collaboration: Church of England Agencies and the Heritage Movement
- Call for Expert-Led Policy
- Tense Beginnings
- Intervention
- Architectural Value
- Alternative Use and Demolition
- 7. Conclusion
- References.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charlton Yarnall Fund.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9783031175961
- 3031175964
- OCLC:
- 1342620238
- Publisher Number:
- 99993426502
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