Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture

by Victor Turner, Edith Turner

Overview

This classic book, now updated and extensively revised, examines the theological doctrines and popular notions that promote and sustain Christian pilgrimage, including their corresponding symbols and images.

Columbia University Press

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231042871
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	08/05/1995
Series:	Columbia Classics in Religion , #11
Edition description:	Columbia Classics edition
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.02(w) x 9.04(h) x 0.77(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Victor Turner (1920–1983) was professor of religion and anthropology at the University of Chicago. He authored many books, including The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual, The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society, and On the Edge of the Bush: Anthropology As Experience.

Edith Turner is a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Virginia and editor of the journal Anthropology and Humanism.

Deborah Ross is a theologian and writer living in San Francisco.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Paperback AdditionPreface1 - Introduction: Pilgrimage as Myth and History2 - Mexican Pilgrimages: Myth and History3 - St. Patrick's Purgatory: Religion and Nationalism in an Archaic Pilgrimage4 - Iconophily and Iconoclasm in Marian Pilgrimage3 - Locality and Universality in Medieval Pilgrimages6 - Apparitions, Messages, and Miracles: Postindustrial Marian Pilgrimage7 - ConclusionsAppendix AAppendix BBibliographyIndex

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What People are Saying About This

Simon Coleman

Image and Pilgrimage is a landmark in the anthropological study ofpilgrimage: indeed, it formed the field. We still have not fullyappreciated all that it has to say about embodiment, movement, andmateriality. But even more than a study of Christian pilgrimage, it isalso a book about how to do anthropology, and how to trace theintersections between history, religious experience and popularculture.

— Simon Coleman, Chancellor Jackman Chaired Professor at the Department and Centre for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto

Editorial Reviews

This book constitutes an important foreshadowing of issues that have become prominent in more recent anthropology.

Culture

Like Turner's other books, this one admirably fuses a symbolic, cognitive approach to culture with a social functionalist one. Like his other books as well, this one is as accessible to novice undergraduates as to specialists in anthropology and religion.

CHOICE

This book is a fine combination of scholarship and readability. The Turners contend that pilgrimage is a major socioreligious phenomenon and thus worthy of anthropological study.... This fine book deserves a wide readership.

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

Like Turner's other books, this one admirably fuses a symbolic, cognitive approach to culture with a social functionalist one. Like his other books as well, this one is as accessible to novice undergraduates as to specialists in anthropology and religion.

Choice

This book is a fine combination of scholarship and readability. The Turners contend that pilgrimage is a major socioreligious phenomenon and thus worthy of anthropological study.... This fine book deserves a wide readership.

International Journal of Comparative Sociology