Selling Jerusalem: Relics, Replicas, Theme Parks by Annabel Jane Wharton

Yaron, Hadas

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The Cultural Biography of a Pilgrimage Token: From Hagiographical to Archaeological Evidence

Boero¹

2020

Archiv Für Religionsgeschichte

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Across the eastern Mediterranean, the personnel of late antique pilgrimage sites distributed terracotta tokens stamped with depictions of saints, scenes from the life of Christ, and related imagery. Using primarily hagiographical sources, scholars associate tokens with healing practices, the veneration of icons, and the worship of relics. Certainly, hagiographies offer valuable representations of ritual processes, but they also make claims on the proper distribution, meaning, and use of tokens amidst a diversity of intercessory activities. How, in practice, was a token produced and distributed? How did pilgrims use tokens at and away from pilgrimage complexes beyond the assertions made by hagiographers? This article answers these questions by tracing the “cultural biography” of a token. It analyzes the archaeological contexts of tokens in order to clarify select statuses that a token might occupy during its lifetime, including commodity, gift, domestic object, funerary object, relic, rubbish, and art object. This approach lays the foundation for examining hagiographical claims regarding the use of tokens as one among many assertions in the contested process of harnessing the power of saints. It illustrates the capacity of devotees to exhibit diverse practices as well as the efforts of personnel at pilgrimage sites to shape those practices.

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The Cultural Biography of a Pilgrimage Token: From Hagiographical to Archaeological Evidence

Boero¹

2020

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Jerusalem's zions

Wharton¹

2013

Material Religion

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The human desire to embody the sacred, to give it a physical place and a material form, is nowhere better demonstrated than in Jerusalem. As one of the world's oldest continuously occupied, politically contested and religiously invested cities, Jerusalem's natural and architectural landscape has been overlaid with scripture and interpreted to death. This paper examines one site of this phenomenon: Mount Zion. "Zion" is often used synecdochically, as a part of Jerusalem standing in for the whole of the city. But "Zion" has also acted as a toponym for the ancient citadel of David. This specific piece of real estate shifted its location in antiquity in order to retain its biblical associations, inciting innocent and not-so-innocent claims of holiness where holiness may not belong. 1

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‘A Most Select Gathering’. Mexican National Pilgrimages to Rome during the Papacy of Leo XIII

Solans

2021

Religions

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The objective of this article is to analyse Mexican national pilgrimages to Rome that took place during the pontificate of Leo XIII (1878–1903). These pilgrimages occurred in the context of a global Catholic mobilisation in support of the papacy, during the so-called Roman Question. This paper’s analysis of these pilgrimages draws from historiography about national pilgrimages, as well as studies on Catholic mobilisation in support of the pope in the second half of the nineteenth century. It is fundamentally based on primary sources of an official nature, such as reports and other printed documents produced on the occasion of the pilgrimage. The study’s primary conclusion is that national pilgrimages to Rome had a polysemic character since they brought together various religious and national identities. The pilgrimages contributed simultaneously to reinforcing the link between Catholicism and Mexican national identity and the global dimension of Catholicism and allegiance to the Holy See.

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Selling Jerusalem: Relics, Replicas, Theme Parks by Annabel Jane Wharton

Cited by 7 publications

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The Cultural Biography of a Pilgrimage Token: From Hagiographical to Archaeological Evidence

The Cultural Biography of a Pilgrimage Token: From Hagiographical to Archaeological Evidence

Jerusalem's zions

‘A Most Select Gathering’. Mexican National Pilgrimages to Rome during the Papacy of Leo XIII

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