Simon Coleman

Jan 8, 2025 | mdpi.com | Simon Coleman

1. IntroductionPilgrimage shrines are places for amassing collections—of relics, of narratives but also of visitors. While popular depictions and narratives often emphasise the lone pilgrim who travels in search of the solitary and spiritual gaze (cf. Urry 1990), administrators of holy sites are usually more interested in attracting, accommodating, and registering the attendance of large gatherings of people.

Sep 10, 2024 | dialnet.unirioja.es | Simon Coleman

Ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Buscar en la ayuda What Makes a Field?: stepping from Pilgrimage to Pilgrimage Studies [1] University of Toronto Localización: Ad limina : revista de investigación del Camino de Santiago y las peregrinaciones, ISSN 2171-620X, Nº. 15, 2024 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Peregrinación en un mundo globalizado: investigación interdisciplinar e implicaciones sociales / coord. por Kathleen E. Jenkins, James P.

Oct 25, 2023 | daily.jstor.org | Betsy Golden Kellem |Paul Jensen |Simon Coleman |Matthew Johnson

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. There’s a good reason we all reach for Frankenstein around this time of year (or, frankly, whenever we need a good, crackly thrill): it’s a heck of a story, and there’s seemingly a version for every possible moment and mood. Mary Shelley’s original novel is, of course, a first-rate choice.

Jul 27, 2023 | rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Simon Coleman

AbstractMuch study of ritual has focused on demarcated spaces and times of performance, and the often spectacular features of such collective behaviour provide rich resources for analysis of formal, symbolically dense action. This article shifts attention to dimensions of ritual events that entail zones of ambiguous, diffuse, or limited engagement where the boundaries between participant and non-participant, viewer and viewed, may be unclear.

Jul 17, 2023 | academic.oup.com | Carolyn Chen |Simon Coleman

Afterlife bodies in Christian thought have been successfully analyzed as expressions of cultural ideals, loci in which justice can be administered, and mirrors of societal structures and hierarchies. As hypothetical and constructive as they are, descriptions of heavenly and hellish bodies reinscribe or subvert norms about the gender, status, and appearance of their earthly counterparts.