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Religious selfhoods and the city in inter-war Manchester

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2011

CHARLOTTE WILDMAN
CHARLOTTE WILDMAN*
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School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
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Abstract:

Manchester's processional tradition began in the nineteenth century and every Whit weekend, until the 1960s, Catholics and Protestants organized separate large celebrations. This article argues that the Catholic Whit celebrations peaked in importance between the two world wars and that this was related to the impact of Manchester Corporation's wider investment in urban redevelopment. It is a story about religion and the self, which reveals important details about the cultural meanings of the inter-war city and contributes to an emerging field of cultural geography that explores the relationship between space and faith.

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Urban History , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , May 2011 , pp. 103 - 123
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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