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Christianity: Faith, Scripture and Tradition

Contesting the Sacred

The Anthropology of Christian Pilgrimage

by John Eade and Michael J. Sallnow · John Eade and Michael J. Sallnow (eds.)

A collection of anthropological case studies of Christian shrines, including Lourdes, Jerusalem and sites in Italy, Sri Lanka and the Andes. The editors challenge the Turners' model of communitas and argue that pilgrimage sites are arenas for competing religious and secular meanings.

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