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This book is a critical study of the Anglo-Catholic movement, which traces its origins to the early 19th century and its heyday in the 1920s and 1930s. It is the first book to analyze the movement from the sociological point of view, and it concentrates in the interwar period and the decline of the movement to the present time. The book also contains a new chapter examining the impact of women's ordination to priesthood on the movement.
A revised and enlarged edition of the most powerful and polemic critique of the Anglo-Catholicism movement. This penetrating and highly readable study has established itself over the years as the standard text on the subject. Anglo-Catholicism traces the movement from the origins to the heyday in the 1920s and 1930s. It is the first study which analyzes it from the sociological point of view. The book concentrates in the interwar period and the decline of the movement to the present time, showing now the ambiguities and tensions originated and the way they have been dealt with over the years. This revised edition also contains a new chapter examining the impact of women's ordination to priesthood on the movement.
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