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Looking for Mary Magdalene: Alternative Pilgrimage and Ritual Creativity at Catholic Shrines in France

by Anna Fedele
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780199898428
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
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  • Pages: 336
  • Original Price: GBP 32.49
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 363 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Christianity / Catholic / General

Winner of the Award for Excellence in Religion: Analytical-Descriptive Studies from the American Academy of Religion

Anna Fedele offers a sensitive ethnography of alternative pilgrimages to French Catholic shrines dedicated to Saint Mary Magdalene. Drawing on more than three years of fieldwork, she describes how pilgrims from Italy, Spain, Britain, and the United States interpret Catholic figures, symbols, and sites according to theories derived from the international Neopagan movement. Fedele pays particular attention to the pilgrims' life stories, rituals and reading. She examines how they devise their rituals, how anthropological literature has influenced them, and why this kind of spirituality is increasingly prevalent in the West. These pilgrims cultivate spirituality in interaction with each other and with textual sources: Jungian psychology, Goddess mythology, and "indigenous" traditions merge into a corpus of practices centered upon the worship of the Goddess and Mother Earth, and the sacralization of the reproductive cycle. Their rituals present a critique of Roman Catholicism and the medical establishment, and question contemporary discourse on gender.

Anna Fedele is a research fellow of the Center for Research in Anthropology of the Lisbon University Institute and a chercheure associée of the Groupe de Sociologie Politique et Morale of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She is co-editor of Encounters of Body and Soul in Contemporary Religious Practices and of Gender and Power in Contemporary Spirituality.

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