Kinship and Pilgrimage: Rituals of Reunion in American Protestant Culture by Gwe

Description: Kinship and Pilgrimage by Gwen Kennedy Neville The twin concepts of kinship and pilgrimage have deep roots in Protestant culture. This cultural anthropological study, drawing on fieldwork in Scotland and the American South, argues that in Reformed Protestantism, the Catholic custom of making pilgrimages to sacred spots has been replaced by the custom of "reunion". FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The twin concepts of kinship and pilgrimage have deep roots in Protestant culture. This cultural anthropological study, based in part on the authors own fieldwork, argues that in Reformed Protestantism, the Catholic custom of making pilgrimages to sacred spots has been replaced by the custom of "reunion," in which scattered members of a family or group return each year to their place of origin to take part in a quasi-sacred ritual meal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 Protestantculture, 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 andthe culture of Roman Catholic tradition. Author Biography Gwen Kennedy Neville is Elizabeth Root Paden Professor of Sociology at Southwestern University. Review "Offers profound ethnographic reflection on such rituals as church homecomings, family reunions, and camp meetings....A fine ethnography, this well-argued book should be welcomed not only by cultural anthropologists, but also by those historian and sociologists who make it their work to understand American Protestantism."--Religious Studies Review"Convincing and informative....A highly recommended, authentic guide to a deeper understanding of the transmission of values in the Protestant South."--Clarence D. Weaver, The Austen Presbyterian Theological Seminary"Most enjoyable and instructive. The central thesis is bold, simple, and telling--that the reformation broke ritually with Catholicism in replacing the pilgrimage with the reunion."--James Peacock, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill"A fresh and well documented example of what anthropology can bring to the study of American religious ritual forms."--Journal of Ritual Studies"An original and sympathetic study."--Times Literary Supplement"A valuable study that will interest a wide range of advanced readers, including anthropologists, sociologists, theologians, historians, and students of contemporary American life."--Choice Promotional A disscussion of the modern day practice of reunion as a pilgrimage complex based in the Protestant faith Long Description The twin concepts of kinship and pilgrimage have deep roots in Protestant culture. This cultural anthropological study, based in part on the authors 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 liturgicalworld 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. Review Text "Offers profound ethnographic reflection on such rituals as church homecomings, family reunions, and camp meetings....A fine ethnography, this well-argued book should be welcomed not only by cultural anthropologists, but also by those historian and sociologists who make it their work to understand American Protestantism."--Religious Studies Review"Convincing and informative....A highly recommended, authentic guide to a deeper understanding of the transmission of values in the Protestant South."--Clarence D. Weaver, The Austen Presbyterian Theological Seminary"Most enjoyable and instructive. The central thesis is bold, simple, and telling--that the reformation broke ritually with Catholicism in replacing the pilgrimage with the reunion."--James Peacock, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill"A fresh and well documented example of what anthropology can bring to the study of American religious ritual forms."--Journal of Ritual Studies"An original and sympathetic study."--Times Literary Supplement"A valuable study that will interest a wide range of advanced readers, including anthropologists, sociologists, theologians, historians, and students of contemporary American life."--Choice Review Quote "Offers profound ethnographic reflection on such rituals as church homecomings, family reunions, and camp meetings....A fine ethnography, this well-argued book should be welcomed not only by cultural anthropologists, but also by those historian and sociologists who make it their work tounderstand American Protestantism."--Religious Studies Review Details ISBN0195300335 Author Gwen Kennedy Neville Short Title KINSHIP & PILGRIMAGE Language English ISBN-10 0195300335 ISBN-13 9780195300338 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2005 Subtitle Rituals of Reunion in American Protestant Culture Illustrations Yes Residence TX, US Birth 1938 Pages 176 Position Senior Lecturer Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Affiliation Group of Policy Advisers, European Commission DOI 10.1604/9780195300338 UK Release Date 2005-04-27 AU Release Date 2005-04-27 NZ Release Date 2005-04-27 US Release Date 2005-04-27 Illustrator Anais Goldemberg Edited by Shengmin Sang Qualifications PhD Publisher Oxford University Press Inc Publication Date 2005-04-27 DEWEY 264.00973 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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