This booklet examines working class culture and opens up the possibilities of not imitating suburban practise as the only norm for being church

Available from:

NECN: The National Estate Churches Network

Chair: The Bishop of Bradwell, Bishop’s House, Orsett Road, Horndon-on-the Hill, Essex, SS17, 8NS www.nationalestatechurches.org

This from: www.johndavies.org/archives/2006_09_01_:

I've been reading since Thursday's National Estates Churches Network conference: Joe Hasler's excellent booklet, Mind Body and Estates: Outer Estate Ministry and Working Class Culture.

Joe (who's been at this for thirty years) makes some valuable observations about the physicality of working-class culture, for instance the importance of 'doing things right' at funerals, how at ease working-class people are with the corpse, which 'has a place within a social context'.