Shrines and pilgrimage in the modern world : new itineraries into the sacred / edited by Peter Jan Margry
- Published
- [Amsterdam] : Amsterdam University Press, [2008]
- Copyright Date
- ©2008
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (362 pages) : illustrations, map
- Additional Creators
- Margry, P. J. (Peter Jan)
Access Online
- www.jstor.org , Open Access
- Series
- Language Note
- English.
- Restrictions on Access
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
- 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. and 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 Pe⁺ђre Lachaise Cemetery : the social construction of sacred space / Peter Jan Margry -- The Apostle of Love : the cultus of Jimmy Za⁺ѓmbo⁺ѓ in post-socialist Hungary / Istva⁺ѓn Poveda⁺ѓk -- 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.
- Summary
- This book affirms, from an anthropological perspective, humans enduring need for pilgrimage, also in the modern world.
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- ISBN
- 9789048502240 (electronic bk.)
9048502241 (electronic bk.)
9789089640116
9089640118
1281787876
9781281787873 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-358) and index.
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