The growth of modern enshrinement and creation of novel sacred spaces (original) (raw)

Abstract

The focus of this paper is the examination of examples of novel shrines and 'new' sacred space. This includes ad hoc memorials to individual deaths and larger group disasters, the 'pilgrimages' to World War 2 battle sites such as the Normandy beaches and the adoption of faux 'ancient sites' such as film sets of stone circles as new neopagan venues for ritual worship. I will analyse features of these phenomena and some of the philosophical aspects of modern memorialisation and public grief-worship.

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