Contesting the Sacred: THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF CHRISTIAN PILGRIMAGE de Editor-John Eade; Editor-Michael J Sallnow - 2000-11-30

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Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 200pp paperback, very good . Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 2000.

University of Illinois Press, 2000. Softcover. Very Good. 6x0x9. In Very Good+ condition. Whether a pilgrimage crystallizes around a place, a visionary individual, or a text, it brings widely diverse individuals and their beliefs, doctrines, and expectations into contact with each other. One person's holy site is another person's profit center - and this mingling of the sacred and the profane is what makes pilgrimages and their destinations complex sites of exchange and conflict. Focusing on Christian pilgrimage to locales as far flung as Lourdes, Italy, Jerusalem, Sri Lanka, and Peru, this important collection assesses the qualities and power of pilgrimage shrines as sites for accommodating various, often competing, meanings and practices, both among pilgrims and between shrine custodians and devotees.Contributors discuss the highly organized shrine at Lourdes and also the shrine at San Giovanni Rotondo in Sangiovannesi, Italy, where conflicting interests among townspeople and pilgrims have… Leer más

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