Publication year
2009Publisher
Farnham : Ashgate
ISBN
9780754667926
Number of pages
XI, 267 p.
Publication type
Book editorial

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Organization
Leerstoel Vergelijkende Godsdienstwetenschappen
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Former Organization
FSW_IGS Institute for Gender Studies
Languages used
English (eng)
Subject
Anthropology and Development Studies; Dynamics of gender; Trajectories of ReligiosityAbstract
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 Far from an outdated practice of little relevance to the modern world, Marian pilgrimage expresses the deep and urgent concerns of a wide range of people. With examples of Marian pilgrimages from all over the world, 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 modern-day issues with Mary's help. The ethnographic cases reveal the cultural and devotional variation of Marian pilgrimage, but also global similarities. Collectively, the contributors to Moved by Mary show how in many places religion dramatically suffuses everyday life.
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