Title: Looking for Mary Magdalene
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.
Subjects: Christian shrines, Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages, Wallfahrt, Neuheidentum, Mary magdalene, saint, Pilgrims and pilgrimages, Shrines, France, religion
Places: France
People: Mary Magdalene Saint