Looking for Mary Magdalene
Subtitle: alternative pilgrimage and ritual creativity at Catholic shrines in France
By: Anna Fedele
Series: Oxford ritual studies
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780199898404; 9780199898428
Subjects: Christian shrines; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
Description: Anne Fedele provides a detailed ethnography of alternative pilgrimages to Catholic shrines in contemporary France that are dedicated to Saint Mary Magdalene or house black Madonna statues. Based on more than three years of fieldwork it describes the way in which pilgrims with a Christian background from Italy, Spain, Britain and the United States interpret Catholic figures, symbols and sites according to spiritual theories and practices derived from the transnational Neopagan movement.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ).
Table of contents: title: "Going to see Mary Magdalene": starting out on a pilgrimage; title: The lost connection with the feminine; title: The Sainte-Baume and its many layers; title: Pilgrims dealing with their Christian backgrounds; title: Celebrating menstrual blood; title: Wounded magdalenes; title: Embracing the darkness; title: Ending the pilgrimage and returning home.