Prayer of the body: Located corporeal practices on the Lough Derg pilgrimage, Ireland

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dc.contributor.authorScriven, Richarden
dc.contributor.editorLopez, Lucreziaen
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-02T12:08:43Z
dc.date.available2023-08-02T12:08:43Z
dc.date.issued2023-07-02en
dc.description.abstractThis chapter considers how embodiment is central to an Irish pilgrimage by situating prayer and ritual as corporeal spatial practice that transforms participants into pilgrims facilitating numinous experiences. Lough Derg, or St. Patrick’s Purgatory, is a Roman Catholic three-day pilgrimage consisting of cycles of prayers, going barefoot, fasting, and keeping a twenty-four-hour vigil on a lake-island. This tradition reaches back centuries allowing pilgrims to retreat from the world, reflect on life, and encounter spiritual renewal. Ethnographic fieldwork provides an insight into the reality of the pilgrimage, motivations of participants, and the distinct religious and spiritual feelings associated with the site. Meanings and spiritualities become embodied in the pilgrims and emplaced in the site through the practices. The chapter will begin by outlining the nature and features of Lough Derg, followed by an overview of recent research on pilgrimage as embodied spatial practices. An account of the pilgrimage’s corporeal practices explores how prayer and performance overlap and entwine on the island. The analysis is enhanced by a selection of interview excerpts demonstrating the motivations and experiences involved.en
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dc.identifier.citationScriven, R. (2023) Prayer of the body: Located corporeal practices on the Lough Derg pilgrimage, Ireland, in Lopez, L. (ed.) Geography of World Pilgrimages. Springer Geography. Cham: Springer, pp. 115-130. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-32209-9_6en
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-031-32209-9_6en
dc.identifier.endpage130en
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-031-32208-2en
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-031-32209-9en
dc.identifier.startpage115en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/14785
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSpringer Nature Ltd.en
dc.relation.ispartofSpringer Geography book seriesen
dc.rights© 2023, the Author, under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of a chapter published as: Scriven, R. (2023) 'Prayer of the body: Located corporeal practices on the Lough Derg pilgrimage, Ireland', in Lopez, L. (ed.) Geography of World Pilgrimages. Springer Geography. Cham Springer, pp. 115-130, doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-32209-9_6. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32209-9_6en
dc.subjectPilgrimageen
dc.subjectEmbodimenten
dc.subjectPerformanceen
dc.subjectLough Dergen
dc.titlePrayer of the body: Located corporeal practices on the Lough Derg pilgrimage, Irelanden
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