Presidential address given to the Folklore society, March 2004[1]

Procession and possession in glastonbury: continuity, change and the manipulation of tradition

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8933249
AutoresM Bowman (0000-0001-5985-7322, autor de correspondencia)
Año2004
Volumen115
Número3
Páginas273-285
Fecha de publicación2004-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFolklore (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0015-587X • E-ISSN: 1469-8315
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0015587042000284266
OpenAlexW1605062053
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11
Referencias citadas11

Glastonbury, a small town in the south‐west of England, is considered significant by a variety of religious groups and spiritual seekers. While there is a large degree of peaceful co‐existence between people holding radically different worldviews, the contested nature of Glastonbury as a spiritual centre is occasionally played out by means of public displays of religiosity, the most obvious example of which is the procession. This paper compares Christian and Goddess‐oriented processions as case studies in the use of traditional means to assert historical, spatial and spiritual claims in contemporary Glastonbury

Archaeology · Ethnology · Folklore · Political science · Presidential address · Procession · Religiosity · Seekers · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Public Administration · Religious studies · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · Religious Tourism and Spaces