Moved by Mary

Anna-Karina Hermkens has a background in theoretical archaeology and cultural anthropology. She obtained her PhD in 2005 with a study on material culture and gender in Papua New Guinea (2005). Articles on this topic were published amongst others in: Shadows of New-Guinea, Arts from the Great Island of Oceania in the Barbier-Mueller Collections (2007); the Journal of Pacific History (2007) and Visual Anthropology (2007). Hermkens is currently working as a project-coordinator and researcher in the program 'The Power of Marian Pilgrimage'. This has resulted in several articles, amongst others in: Anthropology Today (2007), Culture and Religion (2007) and Oceania (2008). In cooperation with Willy Jansen and Catrien Notermans, she organized the international conference on "The Power of Marian pilgrimage" in Nijmegen (Netherlands) from 1-3 February 2007 (http://www.ru.nl/igs/powerofpilgrimage).

Contents: Introduction: the power of Marian pilgrimage, Anna-Karina Hermkens, Willy Jansen and Catrien Notermans; Part I Negotiating Power Through Mary's Imagery: Mary on the margins? The modulation of Marian imagery in place, memory, and performance, Simon Coleman; Marian images and religious identities in the Middle East, Willy Jansen; Aura and the inversion of Marian pilgrimage: Fatima and her statues, David Morgan. Part II Marian Pilgrimages and Political, Religious, and Economic Struggles: Mary's journeys through the warscape of Bougainville, Anna-Karina Hermkens; Mary in Poland: a Polish master symbol, Cathelijne de Busser and Anna Niedzwiedz; Mary, mother of all: finding faith at the sacred source of Sendangsono, Indonesia, Ien Courtens; Religious materialization of neoliberal politics at the pilgrim site of the Virgin at Urkupiña in Bolivia, Sanne Derks. Part III Marian Pilgrimage and Family Relations: Connecting the living and the dead: re-membering the family through Marian devotion, Catrien Notermans; Caring for others: Mary, death, and the feminization of religion in Portugal, Lena Gemzöe; Family pilgrimages to the sea in Guadeloupe: matrifocality under pressure, Janine Klungel. Part IV Lived Religion in the Context of the Official Church: Paradoxes of Marian apparitional contestation: networks, ideology, gender, and the Lady of all nations, Peter Jan Margry; Legitimization or suppression? The effects of Mary's appearances at Knock, Ireland, Edith Turner; Abundant history: Marian apparitions as alternative modernity, Robert Orsi; Epilogue: the many faces of Mary, Jill Dubisch; Bibliography; Index.