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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.
Contents
Chapter 1 Old Routes, New Journeys, Willy Jansen; Chapter 2 Interconnected and Gendered Mobilities, Catrien Notermans; Chapter 3 Big, Strong and Happy, Lena Gemzöe; Chapter 4 Gender, Sexuality and Religious Critique among Mary Magdalene Pilgrims in Southern France, Anna Fedele; Chapter 5 EU Criticism in Two Transnational Marian Anti-abortion Movements, Judith Samson; Chapter 6 The Miraculous Medal, Eric Venbrux; Chapter 7 Pilgrim/Place, Maeve Hickey; Chapter 8 Producers of Meaning and the Ethics of Movement, Eduardo Chemin; Chapter 9 Pardons, Pilgrimage and the (Re-) construction of Identities in Brittany, Ellen Badone; Chapter 10 Home and Away in an Increasingly Multicultural Britain, John Eade, Joanna Krotofil; Chapter 11 Festivals of Moors and Christians, Henk Driessen; Chapter 12 The Virgin Mary, the Sanctuary and the Mosque, Dionigi Albera; Chapter 13 Epilogue, Lawrence Taylor;
