Local identities and transnational cults within Europe /
This book explores the central role of ordinary people in the popularisation of faith-based practices, illustrating: religious tourism as an expression of cultural identity, the interrelationship of cultural groups and the overall formation of culture and society.
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| Language: | English |
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Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK ; Boston, MA :
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2018
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| Series: | CABI religious tourism and pilgrimage series
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : local identity and transnational cults / Fiorella Giacalone
- Continuity from local cult to "accepted" ritual / Gianfranco Spitilli
- Developing pilgrimage itineraries : the way of St. Francis in Umbria as case in point / Paola de Salvo
- Pilgrimage, religious tourism and heritage in Calabria / Alfonsina Bellio
- Fighting for the saint : ritual rivalries in traditional pilgrimages / Laurent Fournier
- Cinese migrations and pilgrimages around Prato (Italy) and Wenzhou (China) / Daniele Parbuono
- Globalizing romani culture : the pilgrimage to the sea in Les-Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (France) / Gaëlla Loiseau
- The cult of Senor de los Milagros of Peruvians in Italy / Riccardo Cruzzolin
- Cultural diversity in a local French pilgrimage / Etienne Guillaume
- Mixing sport and religion in the landes area of France / Mathilde Lamothe
- An ethnology of the foreign traveller to the Shrine of St Nicholas of Bari, Italy / André Julliard
- Healing tourists with religion : Saint Rita's cult in Poland / Inga Kuzma
- A transnational cult : St. Rita of Cascia / Fiorella Giacalone
- Saint Rita of Cascia : an evolving devotion in Dublin's inner city / Tony Kiely
- Conclusion / Kevin Griffin and Fiorella Giacalone.
