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Moved by Mary
The Ability of Pilgrimage in the Modern World

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Book Description

The Virgin Mary continues to attract devotees to her images and shrines. In Moved by Mary, anthropologists, geographers and historians explore how people and groups around the world identify and join with Mary in their struggle against social injustice, and how others mobilize Mary to impose ideas and rules and legitimize acts of violence and suppression. Far from an outdated practice of footling relevance to the modern globe, Marian pilgrimage expresses the deep and urgent concerns of a wide range of people. With examples of Marian pilgrimages from all over the globe, Moved by Mary explores the ways in which men and women of different ages and religious, political, social-economic and ethnic backgrounds empower themselves to deal with modernistic-day problems with Mary´s help. The ethnographic cases reveal the cultural and devotional variation of Marian pilgrimage, only also global similarities. Collectively, the contributors to Moved by Mary show how in many places faith dramatically suffuses everyday life.

Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction: the power of Marian pilgrimage, Anna-Karina Hermkens, Willy Jansen and Catrien Notermans; Role I Negotiating Ability Through Mary's Imagery: Mary on the margins? The modulation of Marian imagery in place, retention, and performance, Simon Coleman; Marian images and religious identities in the Middle Due east, Willy Jansen; Aura and the inversion of Marian pilgrimage: Fatima and her statues, David Morgan. Part II Marian Pilgrimages and Political, Religious, and Economic Struggles: Mary'due south journeys through the warscape of Bougainville, Anna-Karina Hermkens; Mary in Poland: a Polish principal symbol, Cathelijne de Busser and Anna Niedzwiedz; Mary, mother of all: finding faith at the sacred source of Sendangsono, Republic of indonesia, Ien Courtens; Religious materialization of neoliberal politics at the pilgrim site of the Virgin at Urkupiña in Bolivia, Sanne Derks. Part Iii Marian Pilgrimage and Family Relations: Connecting the living and the dead: re-membering the family through Marian devotion, Catrien Notermans; Caring for others: Mary, death, and the feminization of religion in Portugal, Lena Gemzödue east; Family pilgrimages to the sea in Guadeloupe: matrifocality nether pressure, Janine Klungel. Part Four Lived Religion in the Context of the Official Church building: Paradoxes of Marian apparitional contestation: networks, ideology, gender, and the Lady of all nations, Peter January Margry; Legitimization or suppression? The furnishings of Mary'south appearances at Knock, Ireland, Edith Turner; Abundant history: Marian apparitions every bit alternative modernity, Robert Orsi; Epilogue: the many faces of Mary, Jill Dubisch; Bibliography; Index.

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Biography

Anna-Karina Hermkens has a groundwork in theoretical archaeology and cultural anthropology. She obtained her PhD in 2005 with a written report on material civilisation and gender in Papua New Guinea (2005). Articles on this topic were published amongst others in: Shadows of New-Republic of guinea, Arts from the Great Island of Oceania in the Barbier-Mueller Collections (2007); the Journal of Pacific History (2007) and Visual Anthropology (2007). Hermkens is currently working as a project-coordinator and researcher in the programme 'The Power of Marian Pilgrimage'. This has resulted in several articles, amongst others in: Anthropology Today (2007), Culture and Religion (2007) and Oceania (2008). In cooperation with Willy Jansen and Catrien Notermans, she organized the international briefing on "The Power of Marian pilgrimage" in Nijmegen (Netherlands) from 1-iii February 2007 (http://www.ru.nl/igs/powerofpilgrimage).

Reviews

'This volume takes readers on an extended Marian pilgrimage to numerous sites beyond the globe from Europe to the Middle Due east, Latin America and the Pacific, and confronts them with an abundance of both stationary and circulating images, saturated with Mary's presence. I establish it a surprising and exhilarating journey.' Michael Lambek, University of Toronto, Canada 'Moved by Mary is a treasure trove, with surprising accounts of Marian pilgrimages and suggestive new approaches to the relations between humans and divine figures.' William A. Christian Jr, author of Visionaries, the Castilian Commonwealth and the Reign of Christ '... deserves to be included in any library that takes Mary and Marian devotion seriously... a noun contribution to pilgrimage studies...' Journal of Gimmicky Religion 'An original and engaging read, Moved by Mary will exist of interest to anyone concerned with religious practices, ecclesiology, ecumenical and interfaith relations, hagiography, and sociologies and psychologies of organized religion.' Anglican and Episcopal History 'Some books are good, few are very good, but this book is better. It is well written and well thought and best of all: it provides new insights into an area of religious civilization, which has attracted picayune scholarly attention - the contemporary cult of Virgin Mary.' Nordic Journal of Religion and Society 'This excellent and readable book confirms - with fascinating hard-researched illustrations - the multivocal nature of the Marian pilgrimage cult worldwide and its competing interpretations. Representations of Mary, at her shrines and in her devotions, mirror the colours and contrasts of the Catholic tradition today. We are presented with compelling evidence for the continued passion and intensity of Marian devotion beyond the globe in the twenty-offset century.' Fieldwork in Religion '... Moved by Mary is a superb collection of essays on Marian pilgrimage, roofing such topics every bit gender, power, visual piety, rel