Lay Catholic Societies in Twentieth Century Britain

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Edited by Maria Power and Jonathan Bush

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This volume brings to light the Catholic laity's rich history of collective action to address major social issues in twentieth-century Britain, from women's suffrage to the AIDS crisis.

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Table of contents List of contributors List of abbreviations Editors' Introduction 1. Lay Catholic Societies in the Twentieth Century: Historiographical Perspectives - Maria Power 2. A Middle-Class Convert's Crucible: Margaret Fletcher and the Origins of the Catholic Women's League - Kathryn Lamontagne 3. 'In the interests of justice, morality and religion': St Joan's Social and Political Alliance, 1920s-1930s - Carmen M. Mangion 4. 'Its Achievements and Hopes': The Catholic Evidence Guild between the Two World Wars - Richard Finn O.P. 5. Catholic Action in Scotland: The Early Years of the Guild of Catholic Teachers - Leonardo Franchi 6. The Newman Association and Lay Catholic Support for Exiled Polish Intellectuals in Britain, 1942-1962 - Jonathan Bush 7. 'Be proud to be a worker girl, like Christ your worker king': The Transformative Impact of the Young Christian Workers on Working-Class Catholic Girls and Young Women in the Long 1950s - Pat Jones 8. 'Something more than a mere Catholic dining club'? English Catholic Masculinities, Religious Sociability and a Century of the Catenian Association - Alana Harris 9. The British Catholic Worker Movement and Its Influence on Lay Social Catholicism - Anna Blackman 10. 'Today it is not the great saint who is thundering forth': The Laity and Catholic Charismatic Renewal in England - John Maiden 11. HIV and AIDS in England and Wales: How Lay People Led the Catholic Response - Vincent Manning Bibliography Index