Coming months some relevant books reach the stores, to mention a few:
- The Camino de Santiago in the 21st Century
- International Perspectives on Pilgrimage Studies
- The Changing World Religion Map: Sacred Places, Identities, Practices and Politics
- Pilgrimage: A Very Short Introduction
- Christian Pilgrimage, Landscape and Heritage: Journeying to the Sacred
More information on the books and their contents below.
The Camino de
Santiago in the 21st Century
Interdisciplinary
Perspectives and Global Views
Edited by Samuel
Sánchez y Sánchez, Annie Hesp
Routledge – August
2015 – 216 pages – Hardback $140.00
Introduction: The Camino de Santiagoin the 21st Century: Interdisciplinary
Perspectives and Global Views Samuel Sánchez y Sánchez and Annie Hesp
Part 1: Historical and Political Perspectives on the Camino
1. Historical and Modern Signs of "Real" Pilgrims on the Road to
Santiago de Compostela Maryjane Dunn
2. Revival of the Medieval Past: Francisco Franco and the Camino de
Santiago Lynn Talbot
3. Whose Caminois it? (Re)defining
Europe on the Camino de Santiago Steven Gardner, Carl Mentley, and Lisa Signori
Part 2: Literary and Visual Representations of the Camino
4. Picturing the Camino de Santiagoin Contemporary Pilgrimage Blogs
Cristina Ogden
5. Redefining the Nation through the Camino de Santiagoin the Graphic Novel
Genre Henri-Simon Blanc-Hoang 6. Two Religions on One Road to Santiago:
Polyethnicity and Syncretism on the Camino in Saint-Jacques…La Mecque John K.
Moore Jr.
Part 3: Transformations and Identity in the Camino
7. Lost and Found: Materiality and Personal Transformation on the Camino de
Santiago Samuel Sánchez y Sánchez
8. The Australian Way: Transnational Flows and the Twenty First Century
Camino Paul Genoni
9. The Camino de Santiagoas Global Narrative: Literary Representations and
Identity Creation Nicole Rasch
International
Perspectives on Pilgrimage Studies
Itineraries,
Gaps and Obstacles
Edited by John
Eade, Dionigi Albera
Routledge – may 2015
– 208 pages - Hardback: $140.00
1. International Perspectives on Pilgrimage Studies: Putting the Anglophone
Contribution in Its Place Dionigi Albera and John Eade
2. Japanese Studies of Pilgrimage Ian Reader
3. Touching the Holy: Orthodox Christian pilgrimage within Russia Stella
Rock
4. Old and New Paths of Polish Pilgrimages Anna Niedźwiedź
5. Pilgrimages in Hungary: Ethnological and Anthropological Approaches
Gábor Barna
6. From Religious Folklore Studies to Research of Popular Religiosity:
Pilgrimage Studies in German-speaking Europe Helmut Eberhart
7. Studying Jewish Pilgrimage in Israel Nimrod Luz and Noga Collins Kreiner
8. Italian Studies on Pilgrimage. Beyond Folklore towards a National
Anthropological Tradition and the International Circulation of Ideas Elena
Zapponi
9. From Cryptic to Critique: Early and Contemporary French Contributions to
the Study of Pilgrimage Anna Fedele and Cyril Isnart
The Changing
World Religion Map: Sacred Places, Identities, Practices and Politics
by Stanley D.
Brunn (Editor)
Springer – Feb 2015
– Hardcover - 952,94 €
Volume 1
Part I: Introduction
Part I: Nature, Ethics And Environmental Change
Part III: Sacred Spaces And Places
Volume 2
Part IV: Pilgrimage Landscapes And Tourism
Part V: Education And Changing Worldviews
Part VI: Business, Finance, Economic Development And Law
Volume 3
Part VII: Globalization, Diasporas And New Faced In The Global North
Part VIII: Globalization, Diasporas And New Faced In The Global South
Volume 4
Part IX: Secularization
Part X: Megachurches And Architecture
Part XI: Culture: Museums, Drama,
Fashion, Food, Music, Sports And Science Fiction
Part XII: Organizations
Volume 5
Part XIII: Identity, Gender And Culture
Part XIV: Politics, Reconciliation And Advocacy
Part XV: Virtual Worlds And The Visual Media
Pilgrimage: A
Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
by Ian Reader
(author)
Oxford
University Press - July 2015 - Paperback $9.21
1. Introduction: the multiple forms of pilgrimage
2. Examining pilgrimage: forms, types, and interpretations
3. Pilgrimages worldwide: a global and historical outline
4. Motives and means: Asceticism and the package tour
5. Tourism, entertainment, relics, and souvenirs
6. Modern developments, secular sites, and the reshaping of pilgrimage
7. Conclusion: an ever-changing phenomenon
Christian
Pilgrimage, Landscape and Heritage: Journeying to the Sacred (Routledge Studies
in Religion, Travel, and Tourism)
by Avril Maddrell,
Veronica della Dora, Alessandro Scafi, Heather Walton (Author)
Routledge – Jan
2015
1. Introduction: Pilgrimage, Landscape, Heritage Avril Maddrell and
Veronica della Dora
2. Theological Perspective on Christian Pilgrimage Heather Walton
Part I: Pilgrimage to the Orthodox East: Meteora
3. Ways of Seeing: The Making of a Holy Landscape of RocksVeronica della
Dora
4. Where the Tourist’s Gaze Fades: Performing Landscape and the Sacred in
Meteora Veronica della Dora
Part II: Pilgrimage to the Latin West: Subiaco
5. The Topographies of Benedict’s Holy Cave Alessandro Scafi
6. Visiting the Monastery of the Sacro Speco in Subiaco Alessandro Scafi
Part III: Renewing Pilgrimage Practices in the Celtic West: The Isle of Man
7. Contextualising Sacred Sites, Pathways and Shared Heritage: Local
History, Ecumenism and National Identity Avril Maddrell
8. Mobilising the Landscape and the Body in Search of the Spiritual:
Journeying, Performance and Community Avril Maddrell
9. Conclusion: Pilgrimage, Landscape and Heritage: Intersecting Pathways
Avril Maddrell and Veronica della Dora
