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Gender, Nation and Religion in European Pilgrimage (Paperback)
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Gender, Nation and Religion in European Pilgrimage (Paperback)
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Despite the forces of secularization in Europe, old pilgrimage
routes are attracting huge numbers of people and given new meanings
in the process. In pilgrimage, religious or spiritual meanings are
interwoven with social, cultural and politico-strategic concerns.
This book explores three such concerns under intense debate in
Europe: gender and sexual emancipation, (trans)national identities
in the context of migration, and European unification and religious
identifications in a changing religious landscape. The
interdisciplinary contributions to this book explore a range of
such controversies and issues including: Africans renewing family
ties at Lourdes, Swedish women at midlife or young English men
testing their strength on the Camino to Santiago de Compostela, New
Age pilgrims and sexuality, Saints' festivals in Spain and
Brittany, conservative Catholics challenging Europe's liberal
policies on abortion, Polish migrants and French Algerians
reconfiguring their transnational identity by transporting their
familiar Madonna to their new home, new sacred spaces created such
as the shrine of Our Lady of Santa Cruz, traditional Christian
saints such as Mary Magdalene given new meanings as new age
goddess, and foundation legends of shrines revived by new
visionaries. Pilgrimage sites function as nodes in intersecting
networks of religious discourses, geographical routes and political
preoccupations, which become stages for playing out the boundaries
between home and abroad, Muslims and Christians, pilgrimage and
tourism, Europe and the world. This book shows how the old routes
of Europe are offering inspirational opportunities for making new
journeys.
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