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Publisher: Columbia University Press
First published in 1978 and hailed by as constituting "an important foreshadowing of issues that have become prominent in more recent anthropology," this classic book, now updated and extensively revised, examines the theological doctrines and popular notions that promote and sustain Christian pilgrimage, including their corresponding symbols and images.
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| A classic of pilgrim literature |
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This book is a classic on the anthropology of pilgrimage and the use of ritual and image in pilgrimage.
Well written, clear, consise and admirably informative
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| Image and Pilgrimage in Chriatian Culture |
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The book will be an answer to those who are looking for some reasons why such kind of phenomenona, like pilgrimages are still observed in the modern world. Victor Turner repeatedly talks of signifiers and signified and in the book his focus is very much on Marian devotion.
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