Sur le chemin de Marie Madeleine. Des lectures au pèlerinage

Abstract

What are the problems encountered by an ethnographer in describing pilgrims influenced by recent reinterpretations of Mary Magdalene? Which books do these pilgrims rely on in formulating their own ideas, and what pilgrimage routes do they follow in France? Dan Brown¿s novel The DaVinci Code has popularized the idea that Mary Magdalene was Christ¿s wife and the mother of his children. Even before the publication of this best-seller, however, pilgrims were making their ¿energetic connections¿ in churches from Provence to Burgundy. Their theories of the Magdalene, consisting of an eclectic mix of Christianity and elements of the New Age and Wicca movements, form a contemporary mythology and serve as the basis for ritual practices. This way of understanding pilgrimage is both recent and rapidly evolving, and a number of Catholic shrines in France are now receiving a new type of pilgrim.

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