1st Edition

Religion in Cathedrals Pilgrimage, Place, Heritage, and the Politics of Replication

Edited By Simon Coleman, Marion Bowman Copyright 2022
154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores cathedrals, past and present, as spaces for religious but also wider cultural practices. Contributors from history, anthropology, sociology, and religious studies trace major continuities and shifts in the location of cathedrals within religious, civic, urban, and economic landscapes of pre- and post-Reformation Christianity. While much of the focus is on England, other... Read more

1. Introduction - Religion in cathedrals: pilgrimage, heritage, adjacency, and the politics of replication in Northern Europe 
Simon Coleman and Marion Bowman 
2. Replication or rivalry? The ‘Becketization’ of pilgrimage in English Cathedrals 
John Jenkins 
3. More English than the English, more Roman than Rome? Historical signifiers and cultural memory at Westminster Cathedral 
John Jenkins and Alana Harris 
4. Caminoisation and Cathedrals: replication, the heritagisation of religion, and the spiritualisation of heritage 
Marion Bowman and Tiina Sepp 
5. Nidaros Cathedral: a recreated pilgrim church 
Lisbeth Mikaelsson 
6. On praying in an old country: ritual, replication, heritage, and powers of adjacency in English cathedrals 
Simon Coleman

Biography

Simon Coleman is an anthropologist and Chancellor Jackman Professor at the Department of Religion, University of Toronto, Canada. He has carried out research on Pentecostalism, pilgrimage, cathedrals, and religious infrastructures, and has worked in the UK, Sweden, and Nigeria. His most recent book is Powers of Pilgrimage: Religion in a World of Motion (2021).

Marion Bowman is based in Religious Studies at The Open University, UK. She has conducted research on vernacular and material religion, Glastonbury, Celtic spirituality, pilgrimage and Caminoisation in northern Europe, and has worked in Norway, Estonia, Hungary and Newfoundland. She has recently co-edited a special issue of NUMEN, Reframing Pilgrimage in Northern Europe (2020).