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<br> In this theoretically nuanced and ethnographically rich study, Anna Fedele carefully lays out the complex and imaginative worlds of Mary Magdalene's contemporary spiritual pilgrims and their sacred landscapes of European forests, waters, caves, and rocks imbued with symbol and meaning. Immersing herself in their created ceremonies, she reports back to us with sensitivity and insight about their reinterpretations of gender, sexuality, community, and religion. --Sarah M. Pike, author of Earthly Bodies, Magical Selves: Contemporary Pagans and the Search for Community<p><br> This is a rich, thoughtful, and quite startling account of the new spirituality around Mary Magdalene, and around menstruation, darkness and the creativity of loss. --Tanya Luhrmann, Watkins University Professor, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University<p><br>

Over the course of the book [Fedele] provides a sophisticated account of the re-imagination of sacred sites and the elaboration of new rituals to enact and embody the pilgrims' developing ideas about feminine spirituality. --Journal of Anthropological Research Fedele brilliantly explores the pilgrims ritual creativity....Fedele also succeeds at bringing her subjects close to the reader. She handles evidence from interviews with a light touch, so that pilgrims' voices appear clear and uncompromised. --Marginalia In this theoretically nuanced and ethnographically rich study, Anna Fedele carefully lays out the complex and imaginative worlds of Mary Magdalene's contemporary spiritual pilgrims and their sacred landscapes of European forests, waters, caves, and rocks imbued with symbol and meaning. Immersing herself in their created ceremonies, she reports back to us with sensitivity and insight about their reinterpretations of gender, sexuality, community, and religion. --Sarah M. Pike, author of Earthly Bodies, Magical Selves: Contemporary Pagans and the Search for Community This is a rich, thoughtful, and quite startling account of the new spirituality around Mary Magdalene, and around menstruation, darkness and the creativity of loss. --Tanya Luhrmann, Watkins University Professor, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University

Fedele brilliantly explores the pilgrims ritual creativity....Fedele also succeeds at bringing her subjects close to the reader. She handles evidence from interviews with a light touch, so that pilgrims' voices appear clear and uncompromised. --Marginalia In this theoretically nuanced and ethnographically rich study, Anna Fedele carefully lays out the complex and imaginative worlds of Mary Magdalene's contemporary spiritual pilgrims and their sacred landscapes of European forests, waters, caves, and rocks imbued with symbol and meaning. Immersing herself in their created ceremonies, she reports back to us with sensitivity and insight about their reinterpretations of gender, sexuality, community, and religion. --Sarah M. Pike, author of Earthly Bodies, Magical Selves: Contemporary Pagans and the Search for Community This is a rich, thoughtful, and quite startling account of the new spirituality around Mary Magdalene, and around menstruation, darkness and the creativity of loss. --Tanya Luhrmann, Watkins University Professor, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University

Fedele brilliantly explores the pilgrims ritual creativity....Fedele also succeeds at bringing her subjects close to the reader. She handles evidence from interviews with a light touch, so that pilgrims' voices appear clear and uncompromised. --Marginalia In this theoretically nuanced and ethnographically rich study, Anna Fedele carefully lays out the complex and imaginative worlds of Mary Magdalene's contemporary spiritual pilgrims and their sacred landscapes of European forests, waters, caves, and rocks imbued with symbol and meaning. Immersing herself in their created ceremonies, she reports back to us with sensitivity and insight about their reinterpretations of gender, sexuality, community, and religion. --Sarah M. Pike, author of Earthly Bodies, Magical Selves: Contemporary Pagans and the Search for Community This is a rich, thoughtful, and quite startling account of the new spirituality around Mary Magdalene, and around menstruation, darkness and the creativity of loss. --Tanya Luhrmann, Watkins University Professor, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University

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Anna Fedele is a research fellow of the Center for Research in Anthropology of the Lisbon University Institute and a chercheure associée of the Groupe de Sociologie Politique et Morale of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She is co-editor of Encounters of Body and Soul in Contemporary Religious Practices and of Gender and Power in Contemporary Spirituality.

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