Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture

Name: Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture
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ISBN: 9780231157919

ISBN-10: 0231157916

ISBN-13: 9780231157919

Edition: 2011

Authors: Victor Turner, Edith Turner, Deborah Ross

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First published in 1978 and hailed as "an important foreshadowing of issues that have become prominent in more recent anthropology," this classic work examines the theological doctrines, popular notions, and corresponding symbols and images promoting and sustaining Christian pilgrimage. The text examines two major aspects of pilgrimage practice: the significance of context, or the theological conditions that give rise to pilgrimage and the folk traditions that enable worshippers to absorb the meaning of the event; and the images and symbols that embody the experience of pilgrimage and transmit its visions in varying ways. Retelling its own tales of "mere mortals" confronted by potent…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 11/25/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Deborah Ross (Other) : Deborah Ross lives in Dallas Texas and has been crocheting for 40 years. Deborah is a cake decorator by profession but can no longer decorate due to health reasons, so she decided to take the 2 passions and put them together, creating her cakes with yarn and a crochet hook.



Preface to the Paperback Edition


Preface


Introduction




Introduction: Pilgrimage as a Liminoid Phenomenon



Mexican Pilgrimages: Myth and History



St. Patrick's Purgatory: Religion and Nationalism in an Archaic Pilgrimage



Iconophily and Iconoclasm in Marian Pilgrimage



Locality and Universality in Medieval Pilgrimages



Apparitions, Messages, and Miracles: Postindustrial Marian Pilgrimage



Conclusions



Notes on Processual Symbolic Analysis



Chronology of Lough Derg Pilgrimage


Bibliography


Index