From classical Greece to Graceland, people of all religions and cultures have made sacred journey... more From classical Greece to Graceland, people of all religions and cultures have made sacred journeys to confirm their faith and their part in a larger identity. This text is a guide through the vast and varied cultural territory such pilgrimages have covered across the ages.
Eventum: A Journal of Medieval Arts & Rituals, 1(1), 106–127. , 2023
Focusing on the restoration of material culture associated with pilgrimages, the authors examine ... more Focusing on the restoration of material culture associated with pilgrimages, the authors examine how a temporally distant period might be reanimated in the present – or, by contrast, retains potential to be animated but remains dormant. They compare two pilgrimage sites, both characterized by disruptive historical caesuras that define salient periods of destruction of valued eras from the past. In Walsingham (England), the key break is represented by the northern European Reformation. At this site, the medieval remains prominent in the present, where it is repeatedly re-enacted, though in the context of loss. In the Monastery of Apostolos Andreas (Cyprus), the significant caesura is more recent, referring to the de facto partition of Cyprus in 1974. Here, the fifteenth-century chapel contained within the site has not been translated into substantial signs of medieval presence or performance. Despite their differences, both cases studied in this paper demonstrate how a caesura designates the period to be recalled and given an ‘afterlife’.
This paper describes the work of Victorian artists and writers as they mediated between a politic... more This paper describes the work of Victorian artists and writers as they mediated between a political and cultural centre (Britain) and a religious centre (the Holy Land). It is therefore as much about symbolically and religiously 'central' landscapes that travel (in texts and images) as it is about travellers who recreate such landscapes. The paper aims to describe and analyse the re-contextualisation of landscape as it becomes a moving and translated, rather than a fixed, point of reference-in effect creating sacred journeys where lands, rather than just people, are mobile.
ABSTRACT The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics. Susan Friend Harding. P... more ABSTRACT The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics. Susan Friend Harding. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. 336 pp.
From classical Greece to Graceland, people of all religions and cultures have made sacred journey... more From classical Greece to Graceland, people of all religions and cultures have made sacred journeys to confirm their faith and their part in a larger identity. This text is a guide through the vast and varied cultural territory such pilgrimages have covered across the ages.
Eventum: A Journal of Medieval Arts & Rituals, 1(1), 106–127. , 2023
Focusing on the restoration of material culture associated with pilgrimages, the authors examine ... more Focusing on the restoration of material culture associated with pilgrimages, the authors examine how a temporally distant period might be reanimated in the present – or, by contrast, retains potential to be animated but remains dormant. They compare two pilgrimage sites, both characterized by disruptive historical caesuras that define salient periods of destruction of valued eras from the past. In Walsingham (England), the key break is represented by the northern European Reformation. At this site, the medieval remains prominent in the present, where it is repeatedly re-enacted, though in the context of loss. In the Monastery of Apostolos Andreas (Cyprus), the significant caesura is more recent, referring to the de facto partition of Cyprus in 1974. Here, the fifteenth-century chapel contained within the site has not been translated into substantial signs of medieval presence or performance. Despite their differences, both cases studied in this paper demonstrate how a caesura designates the period to be recalled and given an ‘afterlife’.
This paper describes the work of Victorian artists and writers as they mediated between a politic... more This paper describes the work of Victorian artists and writers as they mediated between a political and cultural centre (Britain) and a religious centre (the Holy Land). It is therefore as much about symbolically and religiously 'central' landscapes that travel (in texts and images) as it is about travellers who recreate such landscapes. The paper aims to describe and analyse the re-contextualisation of landscape as it becomes a moving and translated, rather than a fixed, point of reference-in effect creating sacred journeys where lands, rather than just people, are mobile.
ABSTRACT The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics. Susan Friend Harding. P... more ABSTRACT The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics. Susan Friend Harding. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. 336 pp.
The Discipline of Leisure: embodying cultures of 'recreation', 2007
The burgeoning social scientific study of tourism has emphasized the effects of the post-industri... more The burgeoning social scientific study of tourism has emphasized the effects of the post-industrial economy on travel and place. However, this volume takes some of these issues into a different area of leisure: the spare-time carved out by people as part of their everyday lives - time that is much more intimately juxtaposed with the pressures and influences of work life, and which often involves specific bodily practices associated with hobbies and sports. An important focus of the book is the body as a site of identity formation, experience, and disciplined recreation of the self. Contributors examine the ways rituals, sports, and forms of bodily transformation mediate between contemporary ideologies of freedom, choice and self-control.
The Seductions of Pilgrimage explores the simultaneously attractive and repellent, beguiling and ... more The Seductions of Pilgrimage explores the simultaneously attractive and repellent, beguiling and alluring forms of seduction in pilgrimage. It focuses on the varied discursive, imaginative, and practical mechanisms of seduction that draw individual pilgrims to a pilgrimage site; the objects, places, and paradigms that pilgrims leave behind as they embark on their hyper-meaningful travel experience; and the often unforeseen elements that lead pilgrims off their desired course. Presenting the first comprehensive study of the role of seduction on individual pilgrims in the study of pilgrimage and tourism, it will appeal to scholars of anthropology, cultural geography, tourism, heritage, and religious studies.
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