This work undertakes a re-think of earlier anthropological studies of Christian pilgrimage, in particular, "Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture", by V. and E.Turner. This new study explores the limitations of the Turnerian perspective within the context of recent debates and developments in anthropology and sociology. The contributors propose a new agenda for pilgrimage studies, recognizing above all, that pilgrimage is an arena for competing religious and secular discourses. Their investigations highlight the heterogeneity of the pilgrimage process, and their descriptive and analytical accounts aim to provide a basis for comparing different Christian shrines across the world. Particular shrines in France, Italy, Israel, Sri Lanka and Peru are examined with regard not only to the dynamics of religious expression and belief but also with regard to the political and economic processes operating at local and more global levels. This new theoretical approach to the sacred in general and pilgrimage in particular links up with general developments within anthropology.
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REVIEWS "The volume as a whole is a veritable cornucopia of quotable quotes and useful methodological concepts, for which scholars and students of pilgrimage will remain grateful for many years to come." --Journeys, The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing ADVANCE PRAISE "A classic in the anthropological study of pilgrimage." -- Jill Dubisch, author of In a Different Place "This stimulating volume ... offers an innovative anthropological framework for this central religious institution... A short review cannot do justice to the ethnographic richness of this volume... [It] stands as an important contribution to the growing body of anthropological literature on Christianity and Catholicism." -- Ellen Badone, Man
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This chapter gives an account of three contemporary English Catholic pilgrimages to Lourdes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
resident devotees, sacrificial discourse, sick pilgrims, miracle discourse, shrine divinity, animate landscape, lay helpers, miraculous shrine, pilgrimage cults, organized pilgrimages, pilgrimage studies, material legacy, sacred centre, new shrines Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Giovanni Rotondo, Padre Pio, Sri Lanka, Our Lady, Virgin Mary, Casa Sollievo, Blessed Sacrament, Immaculate Conception, University of London, English Catholics, New York, London School of Economics, Sinhala Catholics, Christian Zionists, Clarendon Press, Feast of Tabernacles, Garden Tomb, Oxford University Press, Abri St Michel, Basil Blackwell, Bishop Aponsu, Brother Lambert, Father Raphael, Greek Orthodox, Holy Week New!
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This chapter gives an account of three contemporary English Catholic pilgrimages to Lourdes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
resident devotees, sacrificial discourse, sick pilgrims, miracle discourse, shrine divinity, animate landscape, lay helpers, miraculous shrine, pilgrimage cults, organized pilgrimages, pilgrimage studies, material legacy, sacred centre, new shrines Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Giovanni Rotondo, Padre Pio, Sri Lanka, Our Lady, Virgin Mary, Casa Sollievo, Blessed Sacrament, Immaculate Conception, University of London, English Catholics, New York, London School of Economics, Sinhala Catholics, Christian Zionists, Clarendon Press, Feast of Tabernacles, Garden Tomb, Oxford University Press, Abri St Michel, Basil Blackwell, Bishop Aponsu, Brother Lambert, Father Raphael, Greek Orthodox, Holy Week New!
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- Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture by Victor Turner on 7 pages
- Pilgrims of the Andes: Regional Cults in Cusco (Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry) by Michael J. Sallnow on 5 pages
- Pilgrimage in the Hindu Tradition: A Case Study of West Bengal (Oxford University South Asian studies series) by E. Alan Morinis on 4 pages
- Regional Cults (A.S.A. monograph ; 16) by Richard P. Werbner in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
- Person and God in a Spanish Valley: Revised Edition by William A. Christian in Front Matter, page 96, and page 152
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- Anthropology of Religion by Fiona Bowie on 4 pages
- A Comparative Sociology of World Religions: Virtuosi, Priests, and Popular Religion by Stephen Sharot on 4 pages
- The Anthropology of Religion: An Introduction by Fiona Bowie on 4 pages
- The Virgin of El Barrio: Marian Apparitions, Catholic Evangelizing, and Mexican American Activism (Qualitative Studies in Religion) by Kristy Nabhan-Warren in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Pilgrimage: The English Experience from Becket to Bunyan by Colin Morris on page 14, page 111, and page 165
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