Contesting the Sacred: The Anthropology of Christian Pilgrimage
by Eade, John, and Sallnow, Michael J. (Edited by)
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London and New York: Routledge, 1991. xi, 158 pages, maps; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. "This work undertakes a re-think of earlier anthropological studies of Christian pilgrimage, for example, 'Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture; The book explores the limitations of the Turnerian perspective within the context of recent debates and developments in anthropology and sociology." - Publisher. CONTENTS: The body as a principle of holism: three pilgrimages to Lourdes, by Andrea Dahlberg; Order and power at Lourdes: lay helpers and the organization of a pilgrimage shrine, by John Eade; San Giovanni Rotondo and the shrine of Padre Pio, by Christopher McKevitt; Christian ideology and the image of a holy land: the place of Jerusalem pilgrimage in the various Christianities, by Glenn Bowman; Place and person in Sinhala Catholic pilgrimage, by Richard L. Stirrat; Pilgrimage and cultural fracture in the Andes, by Michael J. Sallnow.. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.
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- Title
- Contesting the Sacred: The Anthropology of Christian Pilgrimage
- Author
- Eade, John, and Sallnow, Michael J. (Edited by)
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0415043611
- ISBN 13
- 9780415043618
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Place of Publication
- London and New York
- Date Published
- 1991
- Size
- 8vo
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- European / 3. Medieval / Gothic; European / 3. Medieval / All; Genre & Subject / Religious / Christian;
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