ABSTRACT
Key areas addressed in this chapter are around practice. The first is the way that Confirmation was conducted compared to the eighteenth century. In this, we see a paradigm change with Samuel Wilberforce as a key figure. Then examples of disorder at Confirmations are examined. Questions around growth in numbers and diversity of practice are addressed. This leads to a consideration of Confirmation as a boundary and identity-forming rite. Some old theories are challenged, and others are revised.
