Built into a huge cliff in central France, the town of Rocamadour is a visual marvel and a place of contradictions. Pilgrims come to venerate its ancient Black Madonna but are outnumbered by secular tourists. Weibel provides an intimate look at the transformation of Rocamadour from a significant religious center to a tourist attraction; the efforts by clergy to restore Rocamadour's spiritual character; the supernatural reinterpretations of the shrine by non-Catholics; and the desperate decision by the Diocese to participate in tourism itself, with disastrous results. For more information, check out A Conversation with Deana L. Weibel: A Sacred Vertigo: Pilgrimage and Tourism in Rocamadour, France or this podcast episode on Meaningful Journeys. Deana L. Weibel appears on The Camino Podcast to discuss A Sacred Vertigo: Pilgrimage and Tourism in Rocamadour, France. Watch here.
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A Sacred Vertigo: Pilgrimage and Tourism in Rocamadour, France
For all its beauty, Rocamadour is a place of vertiginous conflict, where history clashes with economy and memory runs up against desire. Drawing on more than a quarter-century of ethnographic engagement, A Sacred Vertigo beautifully depicts the way in which conflicts over the meaning and purpose of this one thousand-year-old space not only reflects changes in Catholic religiosity and French secularity but also captures the way that both humans and the terrain craft one another to make a sacred space.
Deana L. Weibel is professor in the Anthropology Department and the Integrative, Religious and Intercultural Studies Department at Grand Valley State University.
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