Pilgrimage, Landscape, and Identity: Reconstucting Sacred Geographies in Norway

by Marion Grau

Pilgrimage, Landscape, and Identity: Reconstructing Sacred Geographies in Norway explores the ritual geography of a pilgrimage system that arose around medieval saints in Norway, a country now being transformed by petroleum riches, neoliberalism, migration and global warming. What it means to be Norwegian and Christian in this changing context is constantly being renegotiated. The contemporary revival of pilgrimage to the burial site of St. Olav at...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197598633
• ISBN13: 9780197598634
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"