New pilgrims on a medieval route: mobility and community on the Tro Breiz |
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Authors: | Ellen Badone |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1;2. Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1badone@mcmaster.ca |
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Abstract: | Throughout Catholic Europe there has been a resurgence of interest in pilgrimage since the 1990s, despite dramatic declines in regular attendance at mass and other indicators of religious practice. One of the less well known European pilgrimages is the Tro Breiz, or tour of Brittany, a medieval long-distance walking pilgrimage in northwestern France that has recently been revived (or recreated). On the basis of ethnographic research carried out in 2012, I argue that the Tro Breiz fulfils participants' desires for connection to a community that transcends the self and is intimately linked to a particular regional heritage and identity. |
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Keywords: | pilgrimage Catholicism Brittany |
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