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Kinship And Pilgrimage

Rituals of Reunion in American Protestant Culture [Paperback]

by Gwen Kennedy Neville (professor Of Sociology And Anthropology, Professor Of Sociology And Anthropology, Southwestern University (emeritus))

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      Gwen Kennedy Neville (professor Of Sociology And Anthropology, Professor Of Sociology And Anthropology, Southwestern University (emeritus))

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Oxford University Press

    • Published

      April 2005

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      The twin concepts of kinship and pilgrimage have deep roots in Protestant culture. This cultural anthropological study, based in part on the author's own fieldwork, argues that in Reformed Protestantism, the Catholic custom of making pilgrimages to sacred spots has been replaced by the custom of "reunion," in which scattered members of a family or group return each year to their place of origin to take part in a quasi-sacred ritual meal and other ritual activities. Neville discusses open air services and kin-based gatherings in the Southern United States and Scotland as examples of symbolic forms that express certain themes in Northern European Protestant culture, contrasting these forms with the symbolic social statements in the Roman Catholic liturgical world of medieval Europe and traditional Mediterranean Catholicism.According to Neville, Protestant rituals of reunion such as family reunion, church homecoming, cemetery association day, camp meeting, and denomination conference center are part of an institutionalized pilgrimage complex that comments on Protestant culture and belief while presenting a symbolic inversion of the pilgrimage and the culture of Roman Catholic tradition.

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      • Author

        Gwen Kennedy Neville (professor Of Sociology And Anthropology, Professor Of Sociology And Anthropology, Southwestern University (emeritus))

      • Book Format

        Paperback

      • Publisher

        Oxford University Press

      • Published

        April 2005

      • Edition

        New edition

      • Weight

        227g

      • Page Count

        176

      • Dimensions

        140 x 216 x 11 mm

      • ISBN

        9780195300338

      • ISBN-10

        0195300335

      • Eden Code

        1006558

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      • Author/Creator: Gwen Kennedy Neville (professor Of Sociology And Anthropology, Professor Of Sociology And Anthropology, Southwestern University (emeritus))

      • ISBN: 9780195300338

      • Publisher: Oxford University Press

      • Release Date: April 2005

      • Weight: 227g

      • Dimensions: 140 x 216 x 11 mm

      • Eden Code: 1006558

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