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

Title
Shrines and pilgrimage in the modern world : new itineraries into the sacred / edited by Peter Jan Margry.
Publication
[Amsterdam] : Amsterdam University Press, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors
Margry, P. J. (Peter Jan)
Description
362 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Pilgrims and pilgrimages
  • Shrines
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-358) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Secular pilgimage : a contradiction in terms? / Peter Jan Margry -- 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 -- 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 -- The sports realm. Pre's rock : pilgrimage, ritual, and runners' traditions at the roadside shrine to Steve Prefontaine / Daniel Wojcik -- 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.
ISBN
  • 9789089640116
  • 9089640118
LCCN
^^2008464757