Mary and migrant communities: Pilgrimage and African Mary-craft in Europe

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Title:	Mary and migrant communities: Pilgrimage and African Mary-craft in Europe
Author(s):	Notermans, C.D.
Publication year:	2019
In:	Maunders, C. (ed.), The Oxford handbook of Mary, pp. 592-607
Publisher:	Oxford : Oxford University Press
ISBN:	9780198792550
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198792550.013.24
Publication type:	Part of book or chapter of book
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item : https://hdl.handle.net/2066/213869
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Editor(s):	Maunders, C.
Subject:	Anthropology and Development Studies
Organization:	SW OZ RSCR CAOS
Book title:	Maunders, C. (ed.), The Oxford handbook of Mary
Page start:	p. 592
Page end:	p. 607
Abstract:	This chapter focuses on the meaning of Mary for migrant communities, and for African migrants in Europe in particular. These women appear to be well informed about European pilgrimages and, once in Europe, develop a programme of religious travel. Their mobility has become a kind of lifestyle that serves to frame their new lives as migrant mothers. The central question to be answered is: How do women as pilgrims and souvenir shoppers intensify their Marian devotion in post-migration life and in what kind of religious fusion and empowerment does that result? This central question is answered with an analysis of the data collected during multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in France (Paris, Lourdes) and Italy (San Damiano) between 2009 and 2015.
Languages used:	English (eng)