The Modern Pilgrim: Multidisciplinary Explorations of Christian Pilgrimage: v.8 (Liturgia Condenda) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9042906987 ISBN 13: 9789042906983

Publisher: Peeters Publishers, 1998

Synopsis

This book is the product of a relatively long history of pilgrimage research in a Dutch theological setting. It is intended as a report for an international audience on this long-running programme. Two lines are followed in the book. The first is the track of liturgical studies, in which an historical, European ethnological and anthropological approach has predominated. The second is a social science track, with specific content coming from psychology of religion. The combination of these two lines has been extremely fruitful. In addition to results of various surveys of contemporary pilgrimage practice and the expansion of research into ritual and cultural context in which modern pilgrims find themselves, special attention is also bestowed on historiographic issues involved in orienting pilgrimage research, and its theoretical and methodological aspects. The places of pilgrimage examined here are Wittem, Dokkum and Amsterdam in The Netherlands, Banneux in Belgium, Lourdes and La Salette in France, and Santiago de Compostela in Spain. The central question which informs the whole study is to what extent one can perhaps speak of a new type of pilgrim today, the "modern pilgrim".

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Synopsis

The Modern Pilgrim is the result of a lengthy study of pilgrimage research in Dutch theological setting. As well as surveying contemporary pilgrimage practice, attention is paid to historiographic issues.'

Edition details

• Publisher: Peeters Publishers
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9042906987
• ISBN 13: 9789042906983
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Post P., Etc., Pieper J., Uden M. Van