Contesting the Sacred Christian Pilgrimages Lourdes Jerusalem Padre Pio Giovanni

Description: Contesting The Sacred: The Anthropology of Christian Pilgrimage, Edited by John Eade and Michael J. Sallnow. DESCRIPTION: Softcover: 159 pages. Publisher: University of Illinois Press; (2000). Size: 9¼ x 6 x ¾ inch; ¾ pound.Whether a pilgrimage centers 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. Focusing on Christian pilgrimage, 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 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. CONDITION: VERY GOOD. UNREAD but EX-LIBRARY. Unblemished, unmarked, pristine in every respect EXCEPT that inside the book there are indications the book belonged to a library. There's a "discard" stamp on the first title page. And there's the remains of a library card pocket on the underside of the back cover. There are no external markings. Inside the pages are pristine; clean, crisp, unmarked, unmutilated, tightly bound, unambiguously unread. Satisfaction unconditionally guaranteed. In stock, ready to ship. No disappointments, no excuses. PROMPT SHIPPING! HEAVILY PADDED, DAMAGE-FREE PACKAGING! #2070b. PLEASE SEE IMAGES BELOW FOR SAMPLE PAGES FROM INSIDE OF BOOK. PLEASE SEE PUBLISHER, PROFESSIONAL, AND READER REVIEWS BELOW. PUBLISHER REVIEW: REVIEW: Co-Author John Eade is a professor of anthropology and sociology at the University of Surrey Roehampton, London. Co-Author (and late) Michael J. Sallnow was a senior lecturer in social anthropology at the London School of Economics. Inspired to set a new agenda for the study of pilgrimage, John Eade and Michael J. Sallnow published the first version of this book in 1991 with the aim of capturing “Christian pilgrimage in a variety of historical moments and cultural conjunctions”. The book succeeds in presenting the complexity of pilgrimage as a phenomenon that exists in contradictions (i.e., as a competing arena for religious and secular discourses or a simultaneous push toward consensus and separateness). By focusing on Christian (and predominantly European) pilgrimage, the editors address what they see as a lacuna in the pilgrimage literature, which has mostly focused on non-Western phenomena. The introduction provides a theoretical overview of pilgrimage, including such concepts as Turnerian communitas, the sacred centre, modalities of the sacred, and corporeal suffering. In the 2000 edition, Eade’s new introduction also considers and applies to pilgrimage discourse subsequent developments in the scholarship on gender, tourism, and the textual representation of culture. The first two chapters concern the shrine of Lourdes in France. In Chapter three, the focus turns away from pilgrims, turning instead on the “locals” who live at San Giovanni Rotondo in southern Italy, at the site of the shrine of Padre Pio. Jerusalem as “a multitude of holy cities” is examined in the fourth chapter, given its various imaginings by different Christianities. A chapter on Catholic pilgrimage in Sri Lanka explores the privileging of the holy person over the holy place as a pilgrim’s destination. The final chapter is a treatment of pilgrimage in the Andes. PROFESSIONAL REVIEW: REVIEW: A classic in the anthropological study of pilgrimage. This stimulating volume offers an innovative anthropological framework for this central religious institution. A short review cannot do justice to the ethnographic richness of this volume. It stands as an important contribution to the growing body of anthropological literature on Christianity and Catholicism. READER REVIEW: REVIEW: 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. It’s exceptional, erudite, informative. A valuable contribution to religious anthropology. SHIPPING & RETURNS/REFUNDS: We always ship books domestically (within the USA) via USPS INSURED media mail (“book rate”). Most international orders cost an additional $9.99 to $37.99 for an insured shipment in a heavily padded mailer. There is also a discount program which can cut postage costs by 50% to 75% if you’re buying about half-a-dozen books or more (5 kilos+). Our postage charges are as reasonable as USPS rates allow. 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