Kinship and Pilgrimage: Rituals of Reunion in American Protestant Culture

by Gwen Kennedy Neville

Book Overview

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own fieldwork, argues that in Reformed Protestantism, the Catholic custom of making pilgrimages to sacred spots has been replaced by the custom of "reunion," in which scattered members of a family or group return each year to their place of origin to take part in a quasi-sacred ritual meal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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195043383
• ISBN13: 9780195043389
• Release Date: July 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"