Pilgrim Bodies

An Anatomy of Christian and Post-Christian Intentional Movement
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4724-6413-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Pilgrimage, Religious Travel and Tourism

Pilgrim Bodies traces the emergence and expansion of pilgrimage in the Christian West to its eclipse in the early modern period, and its subsequent re-invention in postmodernity. By focussing on the lived body, this volume engages the recent explosion of interest, both scholarly and popular, in the theory and practice of pilgrimage. It provides historical and theological back-stories to the dynamics in early modern culture that conspired to both curtail and recreate practices of intentional movement, opening the way for the varieties of pilgrimages practiced and studied today. Pilgrim Bodies’ distinctive approach brings together a range of chapters that are rigorously researched yet refreshingly readable, of interest to all those studying, undertaking, or simply curious about the history and contemporary expressions of pilgrimage.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Terreault, Sara

Anderson, Matthew R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Body is the Place where Pilgrimage Happens - Sara Terreault; Part One: Late Antique and Medieval Christian Pilgrimage; 1 Written By the Body: Early Christian Pilgrims as Sacred Placemakers - Jenn Cianca; 2 The Eschatological Body: Fleeing the Centre in Pre-Modern Insular Christianity and Post-Modern Secularity - Sara Terreault; 3 The Bartered Body: Medieval Pilgrims and Spiritual Transaction - George Greenia; 4 The Pilgrimage that Ended Pilgrimage: Luther, the Medieval Concept of the Body, and the Eclipse of Western Pilgrimage - Matthew R. Anderson; Part Two: Pilgrimage as Bodily Performance in Postmodern Contexts; 5 Walking to Be Some Body: Desire and Diaspora on the St. Olaf Way - Matthew R. Anderson; 6 Meeting Others Along the Camino: Representations of the Pilgrim Body and the Ethnic Other in the Film The Way - Marcela T. Garcés; 7 Pilgrimage, Existence, and Psychic Distress: An Exploration of the Bodily and Psychic Phenomenon of Pilgrimage - Christine Jamieson; 8 The Healthy Body: Kinesiological Effects of Walking Pilgrimage - M. Brennan Harris; 9 Event Running and Pilgrimage: A Comparative Case Study - Janice Poltrick-Donato;10 Walking on Walls: Shifting Perspectives in a Post-Modern World -Philip Szporer; 11 Narrating The Pilgrim Body: A Tale of Transformation in Twenty-Six Bones - Stacey Engels; Afterword: Changing the Body - Matthew R. Anderson

Über Autor(innen)

Sara Terreault is a lecturer in the Department of Theological Studies and the School of Canadian Irish Studies at Concordia University in Montreal. She has published several journal articles on aspects of pilgrimage and also contributed a chapter to Voices of Pilgrimage and Reconciliation (CABI Publishing, 2017). With Matthew Anderson, she co-designed and co-teaches a course in pilgrimage studies at Concordia, and in this context, has facilitated students’ pilgrimage field research in Canada, Spain, and Ireland. She has also walked and studied numerous historical and contemporary pilgrimage routes in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Matthew R. Anderson is affiliate faculty in the Department of Theological Studies and a Fellow at Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability at Concordia University, Montreal. His teaching and research interests include cultural criticism, Indigenous studies, Pauline studies, and pilgrimage. He has authored a wide range of academic articles and book chapters, and is an active public speaker and media commentator. His documentary "Something Grand," deals with pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago. Matthew has walked and researched pilgrimage routes in Norway, Scotland, Spain, Iceland, England, Austria, and North America. Current research interests are "dark pilgrimages"—journeys of remembrance and reconciliation taken along traditional First Nations and Métis trails in the Canadian west. With Sara Terreault, he co-designed and co-teaches a course in Pilgrimage Studies and they instituted the "Old Montreal to Kahnawa:ké Mohawk Territory" walk. Matthew’s blog is somethinggrand.ca.