Joseph Dougherty

Gebundenes Buch

From Altar-Throne to Table

The Campaign for Frequent Holy Communion in the Catholic Church

Beschreibung

This book investigates one of the most successful liturgical reforms in Catholic history. Only a century ago, faithful, practicing Catholics received Holy Communion only once a year; now, among American English-speaking Catholics, Holy Communion is a routine, weekly devotional practice. This book explains how and why this ritual sea-change happened.

Autor

Joseph Dougherty, a De la Salle Christian Brother, teaches in the Religion Department of La Salle University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scarecrow Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9780810871649
• ISBN-10: 0810871645
• Artikelnr.: 28134670

Rezensionen

Dougherty provides an important introduction to this 'astonishingly swift' change in ritual practice... From Altar-Throne to Table provides a much-needed analysis of a critical change in ritual practice during the complex of liturgical reform in the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Students of modern Catholic history, Catholic lay movements, and liturgical studies will find Dougherty's work a necessary resource for the history of the frequency of communion in Catholic sacramental practice and informative for the socio-cultural history of American Catholics. American Catholic Studies