Pilgrimage as Trope for an Anthropology of Christianity

• Autores: Simon Coleman
• Localización: Current anthropology: A world journal of the sciences of man, ISSN 0011-3204, Nº. Extra 10, 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: The Anthropology of Christianity: Unity, Diversity, New Directions), págs. 281-291
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • While studies of Pentecostalism have played an important role in forming the emergent anthropology of Christianity, research on pilgrimage has had far less of an effect on this subfield. I explore some of the reasons why by looking at the �semiotics of theory� and asking what constitutes resonant anthropological model making at a particular moment in the construction of anthropology. Having provided a critical account of past theoretical and ethnographic work on Christian pilgrimage, I suggest an alternative approach, drawing in part on fieldwork carried out at the pilgrimage shrines of Walsingham, in Norfolk, England. I suggest that my approach can provide useful perspectives not only on the anthropology of Christianity but also on aspects of our understanding of ritual and religious experience more generally.