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Zusatztext This brilliant book brings the ancient "kinetic ritual" of pilgrimage out of the pages of history and into the context of the contemporary continuity of this ancient sacred art form. The art of pilgrimage has been embodied in the decorative badges, souvenirs, relics, pilgrim ampullae, the well-worn rosaries that accompanied pilgrims, and visible in the influence pilgrimage had on architecture, statuary, and fine art. In Barush’s fine retelling of the past and present of this global praxis, we are taken on a journey through the Pacific Northwest, to Ecuador and are able to perceive, through the pilgrims’ eyes, Santiago de Compostela, Jerusalem, and Rome. Beyond the physical journey is the imagined journey that the "manuscripts, maps, and labyrinths as sites of mental, or stationary pilgrimage" the pilgrim’s experience is literally brought home for others to experience. This fine work is groundbreaking in its interdisciplinarity scope and will be important not only to Pilgrimage Studies, but also to Art History, Ritual Studies, Visual & Material Culture Studies, Comparative Religion, and Contemplative Studies. Informationen zum Autor Kathryn R. Barush is Thomas E. Bertelsen Jr. Chair and Associate Professor of Art History and Religion at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley and the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, USA. Klappentext Winner of the American Academy of Religion's Borsch-Rast Prize. An Oxford Alumni Book of the Month pick While place-based pilgrimage is an embodied practice, can it be experienced in its fullness through built environments, assemblages of souvenirs, and music? Imaging Pilgrimage explores contemporary art that is created after a pilgrimage and intended to act as a catalyst for the embodied experience of others. Each chapter focuses on a contemporary artwork that links one landscape to another-from the Spanish Camino to a backyard in the Pacific Northwest, from Lourdes to South Africa, from Jerusalem to England, and from Ecuador to California. The close attention to context and experience allows for popular practices like the making of third-class or "contact" relics to augment conversations about the authenticity or perceived power of a replica or copy; it also challenges the tendency to think of the "original" in hierarchical terms.The book brings various fields into conversation by offering a number of lenses and theoretical approaches (materialist, kinesthetic, haptic, synesthetic) that engage objects as radical sites of encounter, activated through religious and ritual praxis, and negotiated with not just the eyes, but a multiplicity of senses.The first full-length study to engage contemporary art that has emerged out of the embodied experience of pilgrimage, Imaging Pilgrimage is an important and timely addition to the field of material and visual culture of religion. It is essential reading for anyone interested in pilgrimage studies, material culture, and the place of religion within contemporary art. Vorwort Critically examines the art and material culture of contemporary pilgrimages, with a focus on art created after the journey to memorialize the experience. Zusammenfassung Winner of the American Academy of Religion's Religion and the Arts Book Award Winner of the Borsch-Rast Book Prize & Lectureship An Oxford Alumni Book of the Month pick While place-based pilgrimage is an embodied practice, can it be experienced in its fullness through built environments, assemblages of souvenirs, and music? Imaging Pilgrimage explores contemporary art that is created after a pilgrimage and intended to act as a catalyst for the embodied experience of others. Each chapter focuses on a contemporary artwork that links one landscape to another—from the Spanish Camino to a backyard in the Pacific Northwest, from Lourdes to South Africa, from Jerusalem to England, and f...
