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Showing 1 to 20 of 124 for “"Parishes"”.
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Invigorating the Church for Mission. Action Research with Local Parishes
… a research project with members of five Anglican parishes who wanted to explore how they could bring about change among themselves and how they could connect more effectively with their neighbouring communities. I crafted a participatory action process described as ethnographic pastoral inquiry. …
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A study of the parishes of Rhiw and Llanfaelrhys 1782-1947.
… that the concept of continuity was within the parishes of Rhiw and Llanfaelrhys, more influential between 1782 and 1947 than that of change.
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How community is expressed in place : spatial manifestations of two parishes
… the city. I have chosen to look at two Catholic parishes as they are examples of community with a long history and a will to exist as a community for its own sake. This thesis investigates two drastically different Californian parishes, using interviews of the pastors, priests and nuns (the …
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The farming inhabitants of Appleby and Austrey : two Midland parishes, 1550-1700 / Alan Roberts
Bibliography: leaves 309-336
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Black Collective Memory as Economic Development Practice: Resistance and Renaissance in Louisiana’s River Parishes
… and Wallace respectively) in Louisiana’s River Parishes, known infamously as Cancer Alley, due to the possessing the highest density of petrochemical infrastructure in the Western Hemisphere, marking Black residents as sacrificial for the sake of “economic development.” These current economic …
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Mid Ulster place-names: townland names in selected parishes in South Derry and North Tyrone
… is an analysis of place-names in a number of parishes in Mid-Ulster. The key aim of the research project is to use evidence to work out the original meaning of the names. The thesis also discusses the decline and survival of the Irish language in Co. Derry and Co. Tyrone as well as the impact …
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Chief inhabitants and their areas of influence: local ruling groups in Essex and Suffolk parishes 1630-1720.
… on the cloth trade. The middle ranks of these parishes were also swelled by the rewards from this trade, when compared to neighbouring agricultural parishes. Chapter Two establishes that within this economic region the status of the 'chief inhabitants' was restricted to the immediate hinterland …
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The treatment of the aged poor in five selected West Kent parishes from Settlement to Speenhamland (1662-1797)
… of the network of relief measures adopted by the parishes; relief in kind; housing and the standard of living; medical and nursing care; the role of the workhouse. The investigation has been carried beyond the limits of relief provided by the mechanisms of the Old Poor Law alone, to include …
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The theory and practice of extended communion with particular reference to parishes within the Anglican Diocese of Oxford
… of theological debate. 32 interviews in six parishes were conducted, as well as observational research and documentary analysis. The research challenges the assumption that extended communion is primarily a rural phenomenon, and the evidence uncovered suggests that the principal usage is …
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Living in two worlds: A study of the variety and characteristics of church life and policies in selected Church of England parishes
… the differences between churches. 144 parishes from the West Midlands and from four New Towns were investigated by postal survey. Follow-up interviews with clergy and churchwardens in thirteen selected parishes provided the most important data for the development of the model. The model …
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Seven peasant communities in pre-industrial Europe. A comparative study of French, Italian and Swedish rural parishes (18th and early 19th century)
… be calculated in the same manner for several parishes. I have also tried to present a fairly detailed description of the agrarian structure of each community and to study the interaction between economic life and other aspects of the social structure such as family and kinship or geographical …
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"The Free State of New Orleans": Local Law Enforcement and Illegal Gambling in the 1920s
… illegal gambling in New Orleans and surrounding parishes in the 1920s. It will focus on a series of raids mounted by the Louisiana National Guard to end illegal gambling in both St. Bernard and Jefferson Parishes in August and November of 1928 and again in February of 1929. Corrupt leadership and …
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Församlingen i granskningssamhället
… and quality assessment are taken up by local parishes. Particular attention is paid to the diaconal work of the parishes. The study is based on case studies where a number of parishes and auditing models provide the object of study. The thesis also has a theoretical aim: to test, in …
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Community engagement with local associations and in the development of tourism: a case study of residents of three parishes in the Peneda Gerês National Park.
… a randomly selected sample of residents in the parishes of Castro de Laboreiro, Entre-Ambosos- Rios and Vilar da Veiga. These three selected parishes illustrate the variety of experiences faced by communities involved with tourism. Findings from the interviews were identified which serve to …
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The Parish Landscape in Cornwall, 1600-1800: Space, Sense, and Everyday Life
… understanding of the lived experience within parishes, particularly how parishioners moved within the landscape and experienced space. Utilising the Cornish glebe terriers, alongside maps, plans, court cases, and other archival sources, there will be a focus on the spatial and sensory …
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The Parish Landscape in Cornwall, 1600-1800: Space, Sense, and Everyday Life
… understanding of the lived experience within parishes, particularly how parishioners moved within the landscape and experienced space. Utilising the Cornish glebe terriers, alongside maps, plans, court cases, and other archival sources, there will be a focus on the spatial and sensory …
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