Anna Fedele explores in her work the intersections of gender and religion, the importance of corporeality in religious contexts, and ritual creativity. She has done extensive fieldwork on alternative pilgrimages to French shrines and is the author of Looking for Mary Magdalene (forthcoming, Oxford University Press). She is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA) of the Lisbon University Institute and a research fellow at the Groupe de Sociologie Politique et Morale of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales of Paris.

• List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionAnna Fedele and Ruy Llera BlanesPART I: BODIES AND SOULS IN CATHOLIC SETTINGSChapter 1. “I want to feel the Camino in my legs”: trajectories of walking on the Camino de SantiagoKeith EganChapter 2. Holding the saint in one’s arms. Miracles and exchange in Apiao, southern ChileGiovanna BacchidduChapter 3. Embodying devotion, embodying passion. The Italian tradition of ‘La Festa dei Gigli’ in NolaKatia BallacchinoPART II: CORPOREALITY, BELIEF AND HUMAN MOBILITYChapter 4. The Body and the World: Missionary Performances and the Experience of the World in the Protestant Church in the NetherlandsJoão RickliChapter 5. “How to deal with the Dutch”: the local and the global in the habitus of the saved soulKim KnibbeChapter 6. Is witchcraft embodied?  Representations of the body in talimbi witchcraftAleksandra CimpricPART III: NEW SPIRITUALITIES CHALLENGING THE BODY/SOUL DIVIDEChapter 7. When Soma Encounters the Spiritual: Bodily Praxes of Performed Religiosity in Contemporary GreeceEugenia Roussou  Chapter 8. Re-enchanted Bodies: The Significance of the Spiritual Dimension in Danish Healing RitualsAnn Ostenfeld-RosenthalChapter 9. The struggle for sovereignty: the interpretation of bodily experiences in anthropology and among mediumistic healers in GermanyEhler VossChapter 10. Transforming musical soul into bodily practice: Tone eurythmy, anthroposophy and underlying structuresAndrew Spiegel and Silke SponheuerNotes on ContributorsSubject Index

“The introduction offers a substantial account of recent theory that corrects the ‘dichotomised heritage’ of thinking about body and soul in anthropology...The volume as a whole offers a worthwhile contribution to the growing literature on corporealised religion in the contemporary world. It will be of interest to anthropologists writing on Christianity and the body and on religion and migration, as well as to readers with an interest in the study of religion outside anthropology.”  ·  Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale“[This volume] assembles some fascinating new examples of embodiment of culture, indicating the potential for this paradigm in religion and beyond [that has been lost for centuries]by denigrating and ignoring the body as a serious and intelligent locus of human experience and knowledge.”  ·  Anthropology Review Database“There is a welcome international feel about the venture—indeed the contributors could hardly represent a broader range of European nationalities. Furthermore, I am impressed with both the relevance and diversity of the papers listed.”  ·  Peter Collins, Durham University“This is an interesting and timely volume, addressing an important contemporary challenge for the anthropology of religion… The chapters…are ethnographically solid, and are tied nicely into the overall critique of the separation of body and soul.”  ·  Jon Mitchell, University of Sussex