The Dynamics of Pilgrimage

This book offers a systematic, chronological analysis of the role played by the human senses in experiencing pilgrimage and sacred places, past and present.

Autorentext

Dee Dyas is Professor of the History of Christianity and Director of the Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture and the Centre for Pilgrimage Studies at the University of York. She has worked on the history and practice of pilgrimage, both in historical and contemporary contexts, for over twenty-five years and has spearheaded major research projects and initiatives in Pilgrimage Studies, in partnership with colleagues from the social sciences.

Inhalt

Introduction; Part 1 The Background; 1 The senses, the world, and the pilgrim: multi-disciplinary perspectives; 2 Encountering the holy, the senses, and pilgrimage in the Bible; 3 Pilgrimage, the senses, and the sacred in the Early Church and Late Antiquity; Part 2 Sensory Experience and the Power of Place in England c.597 c.1540; 4 Pilgrimage and the making of sacred places in early medieval England; 5 Patterns of Pilgrimage in later medieval England; Part 3 Sensory Experience and the Power of Place in England: The Reformation to the Present Day; 6 Experience of God and reconfiguring pilgrimage in the 'Long Reformation'; 7 Sacred places, sensory experience, and the revival of pilgrimage c. 1800 to the present; Postscript; Bibliography