Shrines and Pilgrimage in the Modern World: new Itineraries into the Sacred - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 9089640118 ISBN 13: 9789089640116

Verlag: Amsterdam University Press, 2008

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This book will be sure to stoke our intellectual fire and heat up the discussion over the highly charged topic of secular pilgrimage. Stunning in its worldwide scope and brilliant in its interpretation, it sheds light as never before on connections between homages to Elvis at Graceland,the -mafia judge Giovanni Falcone at a flower bed in the center of Palermo, and the late leader of the former Yugoslavia Tito on the Day of Youth in Croatia, among others. The editor has done a great service in laying out the profundity of -secular pilgrimage as a concept and drawing provocative parallels among the examples.[-][-]Simon Bronner[-]Distinguished University Professor of American Studies and Folklore, American Studies Program, the Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg - The provocative, ethnographic essays on contemporary -secular pilgrimage in this valuable collection highlight dynamic, independent, creative expressions of vernacular religion in Europe, the United States, and Asia, and contribute to the development of a greater understanding of pilgrimage as a vital, intrinsically human portal to the sacred.[-]Leonard Norman Primiano, Department of Religious Studies, Cabrini College, Radnor, Pennsylvania[-]

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The modern pilgrimage - to sites ranging from Elvis's Graceland to the Vietnam veterans' annual Ride to the Wall to Jim Morrison's Paris grave - is intertwined with our existential uncertainties in the face of a rapidly changing world. In a climate that reproduces the religious quest in seemingly secular places, it is no longer clear exactly what the term pilgrimage infers - and this unique glimpse at the modern spiritual journeys critiques our notions of the secular and the sacred, while commenting on the media's multiplication of images that renders the modern pilgrimage a quest without an object. Using new ethnographical and theoretical approaches, this vivid collection offers a surprising new vision on the nonsecularity of the 'secular pilgrimage'.

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• Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 9089640118
• ISBN 13: 9789089640116
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 361
• Herausgeber: Margry P.J.