First published in 1978 and hailed by Culture as constituting "an important foreshadowing of issues that have become prominent in more recent anthropology," this classic book, now updated and extensively revised, examines the theological doctrines and popular notions that promote and sustain Christian pilgrimage, including their corresponding symbols and images.
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The book will be an answer to those who are looking for some reasons why such kind of phenomenona, like pilgrimages are still observed in the modern world. Victor Turner repeatedly talks of signifiers and signified and in the book his focus is very much on Marian devotion.
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Victor and Edith L.B. Turner's "Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture" addresses pilgrimage as an institution implicated in social processes and functions. Consequently, the Turners note that an understanding of pilgrimage is key to comprehending a society's culture and its social, economic, and nationalist underpinnings. They illustrate this institutional perspective through a discussion of Christian pilgrimage in Mexico and Ireland.
In Mexico, pilgrims trek to the Basilica of Guadeloupe to see the painting of the Virgin of Guadeloupe, a Catholic icon noted for the Virgin's dark skin. Because of her dark skin, the painting is part of Mexico's nationalist "root paradigm," and was appropriated as the symbol of Hidalgo's revolt in 1810. Accordingly, the image of the Virgin is not only a religious icon but also a "collective representation of Mexican society" (94). This careful entanglement between pilgrimage and social structures is also demonstrated in the Turners' discussion of Lough Derg, a pilgrimage site in Ireland associated with purgatory. The site's importance extends beyond religion, as it is also a symbol of Irish nationalism. The Turners quote Curtayne who said, "That which speaks to them at Lough Derg is race. In going there they are answering the call of blood" (125). Both pilgrimage sites demonstrate the institutionalized nature of pilgrimage since they highlight the ideological constructs like nationalism at work beneath the sacred façade. All in all, the art forms and iconography of pilgrimage sites hold religious significance but also reveal, "unrecognized and unlegitimized social values... if not [the] `collective' unconscious, which persists in culturally transmitted... symbols" (101). Consequently, an understanding of pilgrimage sites will clarify religious beliefs, but will also allow for insight into the cultural institutions that structure a society.
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This book is a classic on the anthropology of pilgrimage and the use of ritual and image in pilgrimage.
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PILGRIMAGES are probably of ancient origin and can, indeed, be found among peoples classed by some anthropologists as "tribal," peoples such as the Huichol, the Lunda, and the Shona. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ocote tree, pilgrimage systems, orectic pole, ideological communitas, normative communitas, existential communitas, normative pole, pilgrimage process, pilgrim kneels, miraculous painting, pilgrim centers, pilgrimage devotions, root paradigms, foundation narrative, pilgrimage centers, penitential pilgrimage, medieval pilgrimages, dominant symbol, pilgrim shrines, historical religions, pilgrimage shrines Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lough Derg, Juan Diego, Our Lady of the Remedies, Mexico City, Virgin Mary, Middle Ages, Virgin of Guadalupe, Patrick's Purgatory, Holy House, Station Island, Blessed Virgin, Holy Land, Gil Cordero, Immaculate Conception, New World, Fray Martin, Slipper Chapel, Jesus Christ, Church of San Bartolo Naucalpan, Croagh Patrick, Dark Virgin, Gregory the Great, Hail Marys, Becerra Tanco, Juan Bernardino New!
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PILGRIMAGES are probably of ancient origin and can, indeed, be found among peoples classed by some anthropologists as "tribal," peoples such as the Huichol, the Lunda, and the Shona. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ocote tree, pilgrimage systems, orectic pole, ideological communitas, normative communitas, existential communitas, normative pole, pilgrimage process, pilgrim kneels, miraculous painting, pilgrim centers, pilgrimage devotions, root paradigms, foundation narrative, pilgrimage centers, penitential pilgrimage, medieval pilgrimages, dominant symbol, pilgrim shrines, historical religions, pilgrimage shrines Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lough Derg, Juan Diego, Our Lady of the Remedies, Mexico City, Virgin Mary, Middle Ages, Virgin of Guadalupe, Patrick's Purgatory, Holy House, Station Island, Blessed Virgin, Holy Land, Gil Cordero, Immaculate Conception, New World, Fray Martin, Slipper Chapel, Jesus Christ, Church of San Bartolo Naucalpan, Croagh Patrick, Dark Virgin, Gregory the Great, Hail Marys, Becerra Tanco, Juan Bernardino New!
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- Ritual Process, The: Structure and Anti-Structure by Victor Turner in Front Matter, page 3, and page 135
- Beyond Boredom and Anxiety: Experiencing Flow in Work and Play by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on page 103, page 137, and Back Matter
- Divine Comedy (Oxford World's Classics) by Dante Alighieri on page 111, and page 126
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- Anthropology of Religion by Fiona Bowie on page 153, page 173, and page 266
- Iain Sinclair (Salt Studies in Contemporary Literature & Culture S.) by Robert Bond on page 97, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A Comparative Sociology of World Religions: Virtuosi, Priests, and Popular Religion by Stephen Sharot in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Loyola's Acts: The Rhetoric of the Self (New Historicism) by Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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