TY - BOOK ID - 77869070 TI - Church alive! PY - 2006 SN - 1429455632 0868400505 9781429455633 9780868400501 PB - Sydney UNSW Press DB - UniCat KW - Catholics. KW - Catholics KW - Religion KW - Philosophy & Religion KW - Christianity KW - Christians KW - History KW - St. Mary's Parish (North Sydney, N.S.W.) KW - St. Francis Xavier's Church (Lavender Bay, N.S.W.) KW - Star of the Sea Church (Milsons Point, N.S.W.) KW - History. KW - New South Wales KW - Church history. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77869070 AB - Here the author has turned his anthropological, theological, historical and philosophical education, as well as his personal experience, to writing the living history of three Jesuit parishes on the North Shore of Sydney Harbour for the years 1956 to 2006. This book is an ethnographic history of the prophetic imagination among ordinary believers in times of great religious change. It is a narrative about behaviour, symbols, rituals, sacred spaces, sacred times, that tells of the cultural system within them. The broader context of post-Vatican II Catholicism and a religion that led the communit ER -