Shrines and pilgrimage in the modern world : new itineraries into the sacred /

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This book affirms, from an anthropological perspective, humans enduring need for pilgrimage, also in the modern world.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Margry, P. J. (Peter Jan)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Amsterdam] : Amsterdam University Press, 2008.
Series:Moravian MUPO title
Subjects:
Pilgrims and pilgrimages.
Shrines.
Sanctuaires.
shrines (structures)
Humanities.
Religion and beliefs.
Religion: general.
Comparative religion.
Society and social sciences.
Sociology and anthropology.
History.
RELIGION > Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Pilgrims and pilgrimages
Shrines
religion
cultuur and geschiedenis
sociology
religie
anthropology
culture and history
sociologie
anthropologie
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Secular pilgimage : a contradiction in terms? / Peter Jan Margry
  • I. The political realm. The anti-mafia movement as religion? : the pilgrimage to Falcone's tree / Deborah Puccio-Den
  • "I'm not religious, but Tito is a god" : Tito, Kumrovec, and the new pilgrims / Marijana Belaj
  • Patriotism and religion : pilgrimages to Soekarno's grave / Huub de Jonge
  • II. The musical realm. Rock and roll pilgrims : reflections on ritual, religiosity, and race at Graceland / Erika Doss
  • The pilgrimage to Jim Morrison's grave at Père Lachaise Cemetery : the social construction of sacred space / Peter Jan Margry
  • The Apostle of Love : the cultus of Jimmy Zámbó in post-socialist Hungary / István Povedák
  • III. The sports realm. Pre's rock : pilgrimage, ritual, and runners' traditions at the roadside shrine to Steve Prefontaine / Daniel Wojcik
  • IV. The realm of life, spirituality and death. Going with the flow : contemporary pilgrimage in Glastonbury / Marion Bowman
  • The pilgrimage to the "cancer forest" on the "Trees for Life Day" in Flevoland / Paul Post
  • Sites of memory, sites of sorrow : an American veterans' motorcycle pilgrimage / Jill Dubisch.

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