1. Received Ideas -- 2. Devotions in Common -- 3. Familiar Prayers -- 4. A Community Apart -- 5. An English Piety
Summary
This is a reassessment of English Roman Catholic piety at the grass-roots level in Victorian England. It offers a controversial analysis of the influence of long-established practices and attitudes in the new context of the 19th-century re-establishment of Roman Catholicism in England