Word: claustral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were too busy building the church to bother about intellectual pursuits, and warned their congregations not to mix with the Protestant population. "The conservatives of the church," writes Shannon, "struggled to ensnare and pinion the live corpus of the faithful in their own petty vision, a vision of a claustral parish world: tidy, thick-curtained, breathing of dust, every antimacassar firmly in place...