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      Gender, Nation and Religion in European Pilgrimage
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      Gender, Nation and Religion in European Pilgrimage

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      Gender, Nation and Religion in European Pilgrimage

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      Gender, Nation and Religion in European Pilgrimage book

      ByCatrien Notermans, Willy Jansen
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2012
      eBook Published 18 April 2016
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315584126
      Pages 248
      eBook ISBN 9781315584126
      Subjects Area Studies, Humanities, Social Sciences
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      Notermans, C. (2012). Gender, Nation and Religion in European Pilgrimage (W. Jansen, Ed.) (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315584126

      ABSTRACT

      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.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|18 pages

      Old Routes, New Journeys: Reshaping Gender, Nation and Religion in European Pilgrimage

      chapter 2|18 pages

      Interconnected and Gendered Mobilities: African Migrants on Pilgrimage to Our Lady of Lourdes in France

      ByCatrien Notermans

      chapter 3|17 pages

      Big, Strong and Happy: Reimagining Femininity on the Way to Compostela

      ByLena Gemzöe

      chapter 4|16 pages

      Gender, Sexuality and Religious Critique among Mary Magdalene Pilgrims in Southern France

      chapter 5|19 pages

      EU Criticism in Two Transnational Marian Anti-abortion Movements

      chapter 6|16 pages

      The Miraculous Medal: Linking People Together Like the Beads of the Rosary

      ByEric Venbrux

      chapter 7|22 pages

      Pilgrim/Place

      ByPhotographs by Maeve Hickey

      chapter 8|18 pages

      Producers of Meaning and the Ethics of Movement: Religion, Consumerism and Gender on the Road to Compostela

      chapter 9|18 pages

      Pardons, Pilgrimage and the (Re-)construction of Identities in Brittany

      ByBrittany Ellen Badone

      chapter 10|16 pages

      Home and Away in an Increasingly Multicultural Britain: Pilgrimage, Parish and Polish Migration

      chapter 11|14 pages

      Festivals of Moors and Christians: Replaying the Religious Frontier in Andalusia, Spain

      chapter 12|16 pages

      The Virgin Mary, the Sanctuary and the Mosque: Interfaith Coexistence at a Pilgrimage Centre

      chapter 13|12 pages

      Epilogue: Pilgrimage, Moral Geography and Contemporary Religion in the West

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