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Shrines and pilgrimage in the modern world : new itineraries into the sacred / edited by Peter Jan Margry.

Contributor(s): Margry, P. J. (Peter Jan)
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Amsterdam, The Netherlands : Amsterdam University Press, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 362 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789089640116 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9089640118 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Pilgrims and pilgrimages | ShrinesBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Secular pilgrimage : a contradiction in terms? / Peter Jan Margry -- The anti-mafia movement as religion? the pilgrimage to falcone's tree / Deborah Puccio-Den -- 'I'm not religious, but Tito is a God' : Tito, Kumrovec, and the new pilgrims / Marijana Belaj -- Patriotism and religion : pilgrimages to Soekarno's grave / Huub de Jonge -- Rock and roll pilgrims : reflections on ritual, religiosity, and race at Graceland / Erika Doss -- The pilgrimage to Jim Morrison's grave at Père Lachaise cemetery : the social construction of sacred space / Peter Jan Margry -- The apostle of love : the cultus of Jimmy Zámbó in post-Socialist Hungary / István Povedák -- Pre's rock : pilgrimage, ritual, and runners' traditions at the roadside shrine to Steve Prefontaine / Daniel Wojcik -- Going with the flow : contemporary pilgrimage in Glastonbury / Marion Bowman -- The pilgrimage to the 'cancer forest' on the 'trees for life day' in Flevoland / Paul Post -- Sites of memory, sites of sorrow : an American veterans' motorcycle pilgrimage / Jill Dubisch.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Secular pilgrimage : a contradiction in terms? / Peter Jan Margry -- The anti-mafia movement as religion? the pilgrimage to falcone's tree / Deborah Puccio-Den -- 'I'm not religious, but Tito is a God' : Tito, Kumrovec, and the new pilgrims / Marijana Belaj -- Patriotism and religion : pilgrimages to Soekarno's grave / Huub de Jonge -- Rock and roll pilgrims : reflections on ritual, religiosity, and race at Graceland / Erika Doss -- The pilgrimage to Jim Morrison's grave at Père Lachaise cemetery : the social construction of sacred space / Peter Jan Margry -- The apostle of love : the cultus of Jimmy Zámbó in post-Socialist Hungary / István Povedák -- Pre's rock : pilgrimage, ritual, and runners' traditions at the roadside shrine to Steve Prefontaine / Daniel Wojcik -- Going with the flow : contemporary pilgrimage in Glastonbury / Marion Bowman -- The pilgrimage to the 'cancer forest' on the 'trees for life day' in Flevoland / Paul Post -- Sites of memory, sites of sorrow : an American veterans' motorcycle pilgrimage / Jill Dubisch.

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