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Shrines and pilgrimage in the modern world : new itineraries into the sacred / edited by Peter Jan Margry.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Moravian MUPO titlePublisher: [Amsterdam] : Amsterdam University Press, 2008Description: 1 electronic resource (362 pages )Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789048502240
  • 9048502241
  • 9786611787875
  • 6611787879
  • 1281787876
  • 9781281787873
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Shrines and pilgrimage in the modern worldDDC classification:
  • 291.35
LOC classification:
  • BL619.P5
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  • online - EBSCO
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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.
Summary: This book affirms, from an anthropological perspective, humans enduring need for pilgrimage, also in the modern world.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)259126

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-358) and index.

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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.

This book affirms, from an anthropological perspective, humans enduring need for pilgrimage, also in the modern world.

English.