Post-Reformation Christian Pilgrimage and the Globalization of Sentiment
Changes to post-Reformation European pilgrimage as it was variously abandoned, revived, and transformed, are indicative of the wider changes that happened to western society. Pilgrimages are useful examples for understanding the relationship between the sixteenth-century Reformations, and, eventuall...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Peeters
[2018]
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Theoforum
Year: 2018, Volume: 48, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 11-22 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KBA Western Europe KCD Hagiography; saints |
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| Summary: | Changes to post-Reformation European pilgrimage as it was variously abandoned, revived, and transformed, are indicative of the wider changes that happened to western society. Pilgrimages are useful examples for understanding the relationship between the sixteenth-century Reformations, and, eventually, those forces which resulted in globalization. The decline of pilgrimage, especially in Protestant areas, helped lead to the emergence of tourism as a separate, identifiable, and eventually globalizing, phenomenon. Whether for contemporary bus pilgrims going to a healing shrine like at Lourdes, or long-distance walkers seeking experience and authenticity, this short study of pilgrimage proposes that the changes to pilgrimage highlight the effects of the Romantic era. Les changements que subit le pèlerinage chrétien en Europe après la Réforme, alors qu’il fut tantôt abandonné, tantôt rétabli, tantôt transformé, sont symptomatiques des changements plus vastes qui touchèrent la société occidentale. Les pèlerinages peuvent aider à comprendre le rapport entre les Réformes du seizième siècle et les forces qui aboutirent finalement à la globalisation. Le déclin du pèlerinage, particulièrement dans les régions protestantes, contribua à l’émergence du tourisme comme phénomène distinct, identifiable et éventuellement globalisant. Qu’il s’agisse des pèlerins d’aujourd’hui qui se rendent en autobus à un sanctuaire de guérison tel que Lourdes ou de grands marcheurs à la recherche d’expérience et d’authenticité, cette brève étude propose que les mutations du pèlerinage illustrent les effets de l’ère romantique. |
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| ISSN: | 2295-5186 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theoforum
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2143/TF.48.1.3286625 |