Claiming Sacred Ground Pilgrims and Politics at Glastonbury and Sedona 1st Edition by Adrian J Ivakhiv ISBN 0253108381 9780253108388

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ISBN 10: 0253108381
ISBN 13: 9780253108388
Author: Adrian J Ivakhiv

Claiming Sacred Ground
Pilgrims and Politics at Glastonbury and Sedona

Adrian J. Ivakhiv

A study of people and politics at two New Age spiritual sites.

In this richly textured account, Adrian Ivakhiv focuses on the activities of pilgrim-migrants to Glastonbury, England and Sedona, Arizona. He discusses their efforts to encounter and experience the spirit or energy of the land and to mark out its significance by investing it with sacred meanings. Their endeavors are presented against a broad canvas of cultural and environmental struggles associated with the incorporation of such geographically marginal places into an expanding global cultural economy.

Ivakhiv sees these contested and “heterotopic” landscapes as the nexus of a complex web of interestes and longings: from millennial anxieties and nostalgic re-imaginings of history and prehistory; to real-estate power grabs; contending religious visions; and the free play of ideas from science, pseudo-science, and popular culture. Looming over all this is the nonhuman life of these landscapes, an”otherness” that alternately reveals and conceals itself behind a pagenant of beliefs, images, and place-myths.

A significant contribution to scholarship on alternative spirituality, sacred space, and the politics of natural landscapes, Claiming Sacred Ground will interest scholars and students of environmental and cultural studies, and the sociology of religious movements and pilgrimage. Non-specialist readers will be stimulated by the cultural, ecological, and spiritual dimensions of extraordinary natural landscapes.

Adrian Ivakhiv teaches in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto, and is President of the Environmental Studies Association of Canada.

Claiming Sacred Ground Pilgrims and Politics at Glastonbury and Sedona 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1 – Mapping the Sacred Landscape

• Defining Sacred Space: From Myth to Modernity

• The Geography of Spirit: Landscapes as Living Texts

• Methodology: Ethnography Between Faith and Fieldwork

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Chapter 2 – Glastonbury: Avalon Reimagined

• Legends of the Grail and the Goddess

• The Glastonbury Zodiac and the Mystical Landscape

• From Abbey to New Age: The Town as Spiritual Marketplace

• Local Voices and New Spiritual Economies

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Chapter 3 – Sedona: The Vortex and the Vision

• Red Rocks and Magnetic Mysteries

• Native Presence and New Age Appropriation

• Tourism, Transformation, and the Business of Belief

• Environmentalism Meets Spiritual Capitalism

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Chapter 4 – Pilgrimage and Identity

• Modern Pilgrims: Seekers, Tourists, and Residents

• Embodied Journeys: Ritual, Movement, and Experience

• The Politics of Authenticity and Belonging

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Chapter 5 – Conflict and Coexistence

• Competing Claims: Indigenous Rights and Spiritual Freedom

• Commercialization of the Sacred

• Negotiating Difference: Dialogues Between Traditions

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Chapter 6 – Gender, Power, and the Sacred

• Feminine Divine and Earth Spiritualities

• Gendered Spaces of Worship and Healing

• Feminism, Paganism, and Political Expression

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Chapter 7 – The Global Sacred Network

• Glastonbury and Sedona in the Age of Global Spirituality

• Pilgrimage as Performance and Protest

• Global Media, Festivals, and Transnational Pilgrims

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