Contesting the Sacred the Anthropology of Pilgrimage
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr
- Publish date: 11/01/2000
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 crystallized around the life and the remains, respectively, of a holy man. Another contributor looks at the competing images of Jerusalem among Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Christian Zionist pilgrims.
Other essays discuss the unique attributes of shrines in Sri Lanka and Peru.
A major advance in understanding the complexity of pilgrimage, Contesting the Sacred provides valuable insight into the process of exchange between human beings and the divine that gives pilgrimage its central rationale. John Eade's new introduction considers the impact of globalization and tourism on pilgrimage cults and sites.
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