Moved by Mary

'This book takes readers on an extended Marian pilgrimage to numerous sites across the globe from Europe to the Middle East, Latin America and the Pacific, and confronts them with an abundance of both stationary and circulating images, saturated with Mary's presence. I found it a surprising and exhilarating journey.' Michael Lambek, University of Toronto, Canada 'Moved by Mary is a treasure trove, with surprising accounts of Marian pilgrimages and suggestive new approaches to the relations between humans and divine figures.' William A. Christian Jr, author of Visionaries, the Spanish Republic and the Reign of Christ '... deserves to be included in any library that takes Mary and Marian devotion seriously... a substantive contribution to pilgrimage studies...' Journal of Contemporary Religion 'An original and engaging read, Moved by Mary will be of interest to anyone concerned with religious practices, ecclesiology, ecumenical and interfaith relations, hagiography, and sociologies and psychologies of religion.' Anglican and Episcopal History 'Some books are good, few are very good, but this book is better. It is well written and well thought and best of all: it provides new insights into an area of religious culture, which has attracted little scholarly attention - the contemporary cult of Virgin Mary.' Nordic Journal of Religion and Society 'This excellent and readable book confirms - with fascinating hard-researched illustrations - the multivocal nature of the Marian pilgrimage cult worldwide and its competing interpretations. Representations of Mary, at her shrines and in her devotions, mirror the colours and contrasts of the Catholic tradition today. We are presented with compelling evidence for the continued passion and intensity of Marian devotion across the globe in the twenty-first century.' Fieldwork in Religion '... Moved by Mary is a superb collection of essays on Marian pilgrimage, covering such topics as gender, power, visual piety, rel