(Ebook) Gender Nation and Religion in European Pilgrimage 1st Edition by Catrien Notermans, Willy Jansen ISBN 1409449645 9781409449645

(Ebook) Gender Nation and Religion in European Pilgrimage 1st Edition by Catrien Notermans, Willy Jansen ISBN 1409449645 9781409449645

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Author: Catrien Notermans, Willy Jansen

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.

(Ebook) Gender Nation and Religion in European Pilgrimage 1st Table of contents:

1 Old Routes, New Journeys Reshaping Gender, Nation and Religion in European Pilgrimage
Europe, Religion and Pilgrimage
Approach and Central Concepts
Gender and Sexuality
Nation and Transnationalism
Religious Reconfigurations
References
2 Interconnected and Gendered Mobilities African Migrants on Pilgrimage to Our Lady of Lourdes in France
Conversations with African Pilgrims at Lourdes
Uniting the Family at Lourdes
Many Reasons to Travel Many Times Over
Mary’s Single and Transnational Motherhood
Conclusion
References
3 Big, Strong and Happy Reimagining Femininity on the Way to Compostela
Mapping the Swedish Context
Theoretical Pathways: The Elasticity of Pilgrimage
Turning Fifty
Releasing the Little Girl
Pernilla
Hanna
Britta
Solitude, Autonomy and Self-worth
The Good Girl and Burnout Women
Conclusion
References
4 Gender, Sexuality and Religious Critique among Mary Magdalene Pilgrims in Southern France
Mary Magdalene, from Repentant Sinner to Priestess of the Goddess
Marking the Cave with Blood
‘We Have to Reclaim this Place!’
Mary Magdalene’s Smile
Conclusions
References
5 EU Criticism in Two Transnational Marian Anti-abortion Movements
Debating EU Liberalism
Spiritual Adoption at the Sanctuary of the Black Madonna
The Spiritual Adoption Movement
The Mother of Life for Europe Prayer Novena in Heroldsbach
Conclusion
References
6 The Miraculous Medal Linking People Together Like the Beads of the Rosary
The Story of the Apparitions
The Miraculous Medal Circulates
Rue du Bac: The Medal and the Shrine
The Cult of the Miraculous Medal in the Netherlands
Mariaveld and Beek
The Pilgrim’s House and Pro-life Activism
The Medal: Precious Gift, Powerful Object
Conclusion
References
7 Pilgrim/Place
8 Producers of Meaning and the Ethics of Movement Religion, Consumerism and Gender on the Road to Compostela
Hosts and Pilgrims
Authors and Tales
Producers of Meaning and Discourses of Difference: Gender, Consumer Culture and Religion on the Pilgrim Road
Conclusions: The Ethics of Movement
References
9 Pardons, Pilgrimage and the (Re-) construction of Identities in Brittany
Pardons: Historical Background
Change and Continuity in the Grand Pardon du Folgoët
Tourism and the Authenticity Debate
Local Pardons, Local Identity and Global Connections
Conclusion
References
10 Home and Away in an Increasingly Multicultural Britain Pilgrimage, Parish and Polish Migration
Polish Migration to Britain
Home and Away: John Paul II’s Address to British Poles in 1982
Polish Pilgrimage to Aylesford: The English Częstochowa
Finding a Spiritual Home in the Global City or Keeping your Options Open
Harlow: A Home away from Home for Catholic Charismatics
Repackaged Catholicism: Charismatic Spirituality and ‘New Poles’
Conclusion
References
11 Festivals of Moors and Christians Replaying the Religious Frontier in Andalusia, Spain
Moros y Cristianos
The Spanish Religious Frontier in History
The External Christian–Muslim Frontier
Replaying the Confrontation of Cross and Crescent
Interpreting the Festival
Conclusion
References
12 The Virgin Mary, the Sanctuary and the Mosque Interfaith Coexistence at a Pilgrimage Centre
The Algerian Matrix of the Pilgrimage
The Birth of a Sanctuary
A Poor District
The Choreography of the Pilgrimage
A Reterritorialization in a Heterotopic Setting
The Construction of the Mosque
A Temporarily Shared Space
Conclusion
References
13 Epilogue Pilgrimage, Moral Geography and Contemporary Religion in the West
Religion in the Contemporary West
Religion in Global Dislocations and Reconfigurations
Why Pilgrimage in Particular?
Pilgrimage Per Se
Conclusions
References

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