World youth day : : religious interaction at a Catholic festival / / Jane Skjoldli.

• Superior document: Critical Studies in Religion, Religionswissenschaft ; Band 14
• VerfasserIn: Skjoldli, Jane,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen, Germany : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Critical studies in religion, Religionswissenschaft ; Band 14.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (309 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Acknowledgements
• List of abbreviations
• Body
• 1. What is World Youth Day?
• 1.1 The biggest papal gathering on record?
• 1.2 When did World Youth Days begin?
• 1.3 Previous research
• 1.4 Contextualizing this study
• 1.4.1 Pilgrimage studies
• 1.4.2 Digital game studies
• 1.5 Summary and outline of chapters
• 2. Religious interaction: What gaming can teach us about religion
• 2.1 "Lucy looks into a Wardrobe"
• 2.2 Running out of Hosts at World Youth Day
• 2.2.1 Realms of lived reality
• 2.3 Religion as interaction
• 2.3.1 Superhuman persons
• 2.3.2 Interaction and presence
• 2.3.3 Transrealm interaction
• 2.4 Interface
• 2.4.1 Religious interfaces
• 2.4.2 Interfacial elements
• 2.4.3 What about media?
• 2.4.4 The interfacial mind
• 2.4.5 Governing the interface: Magisterial and other normativities
• 2.5 Immersion
• 2.5.1 Immersion, flow, presence, and vulnerability
• 2.6 Summary
• 3. World Youth Day Origins: From Youth Gathering to Pilgrimage, 1984-1991
• 3.1 From youth gathering to pilgrimage
• 3.1.1 World Youth Day emerges
• 3.1.2 Naming World Youth Day a pilgrimage
• 3.1.3 World Youth Day as a pilgrimage
• 3.2 Acknowledged influences in the official narrative
• 3.2.1 John Paul II
• 3.2.2 Catholic "World Days"
• 3.2.3 The United Nations
• 3.2.4 The revivification of pilgrimage trails
• 3.2.5 The new evangelization
• 3.2.6 Christocentrism and mariocentrism
• 3.2.7 The emergent official narrative
• 3.3 Other possible influences
• 3.3.1 Contextualizing World Youth Day
• 3.3.2 The communist World Youth Festival
• 3.3.3 Polish precursors to the World Youth Day Cross
• 3.3.4 Charismatic Christian "crusades"
• 3.4 Conclusion
• 4. Changing Pilgrimage: World Youth Day 1993, Denver
• 4.1 Denver: From metropolitan city to pilgrimage site.
• 4.1.1 How World Youth Day in Denver became a pilgrimage
• 4.1.2 Preparing for pilgrimage
• 4.1.3 Life and pilgrimage
• 4.1.4 Event design
• 4.1.5 Papal presence and participation
• 4.1.6 The World Youth Day community
• 4.1.7 World Youth Day saints
• 4.1.8 Our Lady of the New Advent
• 4.1.9 The Way of the Cross and the female Jesus controversy
• 4.2 How Denver defined World Youth Day
• 4.2.1 Remaking pilgrimage
• 4.2.2 Legacy
• 4.3 Conclusion
• 5. "Bringing the mind to Heaven": Religious interaction at World Youth Day 2016
• 5.1 Interfacial elements at World Youth Day 2016
• 5.1.1 Identifying interfacial elements
• 5.1.2 The Eucharist
• 5.1.3 Confession
• 5.1.4 The World Youth Day community and the universal Catholic Church
• 5.1.5 Pope Francis-an interfacial element?
• 5.1.6 Places, Poland, and Pope John Paul II
• 5.1.7 The Divine Mercy image‍(s) and the relics of Saint Faustina
• 5.2 Conclusion
• 6. Pilgrimage and immersion: Nuances of pilgrim‍(s) and pilgrimage at World Youth Day 2016
• 6.1 Asking about pilgrimage
• 6.2 Transrealm interaction as a criterion for pilgrimage
• 6.2.1 Self-describing as pilgrim‍(s)
• 6.2.2 Describing pilgrimage
• 6.2.3 Pilgrims, non-pilgrims, and the "pilgrim scale"
• 6.2.4 Pilgrimage as immersion
• 6.3 Expanding possibilities for (inter)‍action
• 6.3.1 "Offer it up": Pain as part of play
• 6.3.2 God as fellow pilgrim: Superhuman persons initiate interaction
• 6.4 Conclusion
• Conclusion
• Appendix: Method and methodology
• 1. A mixed-methods approach
• 1.1 The evolution of a research design
• 1.2 Historical research
• 1.3 Fieldwork
• 1.4 Respondents
• 2. Research ethics
• List of references and archival material
• References
• Archival material
• Index.