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Pilgrimage, Landscape, and Identity - Reconstucting Sacred Geographies in Norway (Hardcover)
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Pilgrimage, Landscape, and Identity - Reconstucting Sacred Geographies in Norway (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Ritual Studies
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Pilgrimage, Landscape, and Identity: Reconstructing Sacred
Geographies in Norway explores the ritual geography of a pilgrimage
system that arose around medieval saints in Norway, a country now
being transformed by petroleum riches, neoliberalism, migration and
global warming. What it means to be Norwegian and Christian in this
changing context is constantly being renegotiated. The contemporary
revival of pilgrimage to the burial site of St. Olav at Nidaros
Cathedral in Trondheim is one site where this negotiation takes
place. St. Olav played a major role in the unification of regions
of Norway into a nation united by Christian law and faith, though
most contemporary pilgrims have only a passing interest in the
historical background of the pilgrimage. The pilgrimage network
comprises a wide variety of participants: individuals, casual
groups, guided group pilgrimages, activist pilgrims raising
awareness for causes such as climate change and hospice services,
as well as increasing numbers of local and foreign pilgrims of
various ages, government officials, pilgrimage activists, and
pilgrimage priests supplied by the Church of Norway (Lutheran).
Part of the study focuses on the Olavsfest, a cultural and music
festival that engages the heritage of St. Olav and the Church of
Norway through theater, music, lectures, and discussions, and
theological and interreligious conversations. This festival offers
an opportunity for creative and critical engagement with a
difficult historical figure and his contested, violent heritage and
constitutes one of the ways in which this pilgrimage network
represents a critical Protestant tradition engaging a legacy
through ritual creativity. This study maps how pilgrims, hosts,
church officials, and government officials participate in reshaping
narratives of landscape, sacrality, and pilgrimage as a symbol of
life journey, nation, identity, Christianity, and Protestant
reflections on the durability of medieval Catholic saints.
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