The Modern Pilgrim: Multidisciplinary Explorations of Christian Pilgrimage

The Modern Pilgrim: Multidisciplinary Explorations of Christian Pilgrimage
ISBN-10
9042906987
ISBN-13
9789042906983
Category
Religion
Pages
368
Language
English
Published
1998
Publisher
Peeters Publishers
Authors
Paul Post, Jos Pieper, Marinus van Uden

Description

This book is the product of a relatively long history of pilgrimage research in a Dutch theological setting. It is intended as a report for an international audience on this long-running programme. Two lines are followed in the book. The first is the track of liturgical studies, in which an historical, European ethnological and anthropological approach has predominated. The second is a social science track, with specific content coming from psychology of religion. The combination of these two lines has been extremely fruitful. In addition to results of various surveys of contemporary pilgrimage practice and the expansion of research into ritual and cultural context in which modern pilgrims find themselves, special attention is also bestowed on historiographic issues involved in orienting pilgrimage research, and its theoretical and methodological aspects. The places of pilgrimage examined here are Wittem, Dokkum and Amsterdam in The Netherlands, Banneux in Belgium, Lourdes and La Salette in France, and Santiago de Compostela in Spain. The central question which informs the whole study is to what extent one can perhaps speak of a new type of pilgrim today, the "modern pilgrim".

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