- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
1 Excerpt from “St Besse: A Study of an Alpine Cult” -
2 Excerpt from “Tarantism and Catholicism” -
3 Excerpt from “The Place of Grace in Anthropology” -
4 Excerpt from “The Dinka and Catholicism” -
5 Excerpt from “Iconophily and Iconoclasm in Marian Pilgrimage” -
6 Excerpt from Person and God in a Spanish Valley -
7 Excerpt from “The Priest as Agent of Secularization in Rural Spain” -
8 Excerpt from “Women Mystics and Eucharistic Devotion in the Thirteenth Century” -
9 “Complexio Oppositorum”? -
10 Marking Memory -
11 Containment and Contagion -
12 Opulence and Simplicity -
13 The Paradox of Charismatic Catholicism -
14 The Virgin of Guadalupe and Spectacles of Catholic Evangelism in Mexico -
15 The Rosary as a Meditation on Death at a Marian Apparition Shrine -
16 A Catholic Body? -
17 Experiments of Inculturation in a Catholic Charismatic Movement in Cameroon -
18 On a Political Economy of Political Theology -
19 Making a Home in an Unfortunate Place -
20 “We’re All Catholics Now” -
21 What Is Catholic about the Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis? -
22 Possession and Psychopathology, Faith and Reason -
23 Catholicism and the Study of Religion -
24 The Media of Sensation - Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
The Rosary as a Meditation on Death at a Marian Apparition Shrine
The Rosary as a Meditation on Death at a Marian Apparition Shrine
- Chapter:
- (p.201) 15 The Rosary as a Meditation on Death at a Marian Apparition Shrine
- Source:
- Anthropology of Catholicism
- Author(s):
Ellen Badone
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
Based on an ethnography of a Marian shrine in northwestern France, this chapter explores the symbols and metaphors of mortality that permeate ritual at the shrine. Through the presentation of narratives about the experiences of pilgrims to the site, it poses larger reflexive questions concerning Roman Catholicism and death. Do Catholic rituals emphasizing the transience of life empower participants by providing them with an opportunity to confront their own mortality, or do such rituals merely reinforce the psychological experience of anxiety and depression?
Keywords: Death, Marian Devotion, Rosary, Pilgrimage
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
1 Excerpt from “St Besse: A Study of an Alpine Cult” -
2 Excerpt from “Tarantism and Catholicism” -
3 Excerpt from “The Place of Grace in Anthropology” -
4 Excerpt from “The Dinka and Catholicism” -
5 Excerpt from “Iconophily and Iconoclasm in Marian Pilgrimage” -
6 Excerpt from Person and God in a Spanish Valley -
7 Excerpt from “The Priest as Agent of Secularization in Rural Spain” -
8 Excerpt from “Women Mystics and Eucharistic Devotion in the Thirteenth Century” -
9 “Complexio Oppositorum”? -
10 Marking Memory -
11 Containment and Contagion -
12 Opulence and Simplicity -
13 The Paradox of Charismatic Catholicism -
14 The Virgin of Guadalupe and Spectacles of Catholic Evangelism in Mexico -
15 The Rosary as a Meditation on Death at a Marian Apparition Shrine -
16 A Catholic Body? -
17 Experiments of Inculturation in a Catholic Charismatic Movement in Cameroon -
18 On a Political Economy of Political Theology -
19 Making a Home in an Unfortunate Place -
20 “We’re All Catholics Now” -
21 What Is Catholic about the Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis? -
22 Possession and Psychopathology, Faith and Reason -
23 Catholicism and the Study of Religion -
24 The Media of Sensation - Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
