Routledge Studies in Pilgrimage, Religious Travel and Tourism
About the Book Series
The public prominence of religion has increased globally in recent years, while places associated with religion, such as pilgrimage centers, and famous cathedrals, temples and shrines, have attracted growing numbers of visitors and media attention. Such developments are part of a global process where different forms of travel – physical movement such as labor and lifestyle migration, tourism of various forms, the cultural heritage industry and pilgrimage – have become a major feature of the modern world. These translocal and transnational processes involve flows of not just people but also material objects, ideas, information, images and capital.
The public prominence of religion aligned to the modern growth of tourism (sometimes now claimed as the world’s single largest industry) has created a new dynamic relationship between religion, travel and tourism. It has been mirrored by expanding academic research in these areas over the last twenty years across a variety of disciplinary areas, ranging from anthropology, sociology, geography, history and religious studies to newly emergent areas such as tourism and migration studies. Such studies have also expanded exponentially in terms of the geographic spread of places, religions and regions being researched.
This series provides a new forum for studies based around these themes, drawing together research on the relationships between religion, travel and tourism. These include studies from global and cross-cultural perspectives of topics, such as:
- commoditization and consumerism;
- media representations of religion, travel and tourism;
- heritage, tourism and the cultural politics of religious representation;
- gender, sexuality and religious movements;
- religion and travel writing;
- ideological and violent struggles over religion and resistance to tourist intrusion;
- inter-religious engagement;
- religion, tourism, landscape and performance; and
- thanatourism and pilgrimage to sites of suffering.
Approaching Pilgrimage: Methodological Issues Involved in Researching Routes, Sites, and Practices
1st Edition
Edited
By Mario Katić, John Eade
January 30, 2025
This volume seeks to explore pilgrimage studies as a distinctive sub-field of research, and to define its key methodological approaches and problems. Pilgrimage studies has long been influenced by such academic disciplines as anthropology and this volume considers the new insights that pilgrimage ...
The Limits of Pilgrimage Place
1st Edition
By T.K Rousseau
January 09, 2023
Through case studies of three pilgrimage sites related to the Virgin Mary, this book explores how pilgrimage places in today’s globalized world do not exist as contained spaces but have porous boundaries, both physically and conceptually. Taking an interdisciplinary approach that draws on art ...
Muslim Women’s Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond: Reconfiguring Gender, Religion, and Mobility
1st Edition
Edited
By Marjo Buitelaar, Manja Stephan-Emmrich, Viola Thimm
May 30, 2022
This book investigates female Muslims pilgrimage practices and how these relate to women’s mobility, social relations, identities, and the power structures that shape women’s lives. Bringing together scholars from different disciplines and regional expertise, it offers in-depth investigation of the...
The Dynamics of Pilgrimage: Christianity, Holy Places, and Sensory Experience
1st Edition
By Dee Dyas
April 29, 2022
This book offers a systematic, chronological analysis of the role played by the human senses in experiencing pilgrimage and sacred places, past and present. It thus addresses two major gaps in the existing literature, by providing a broad historical narrative against which patterns of continuity ...
Christian Pilgrimage, Landscape and Heritage: Journeying to the Sacred
1st Edition
By Avril Maddrell, Veronica della Dora, Alessandro Scafi, Heather Walton
June 28, 2018
This volume provides a theoretically and empirically-grounded study of the significance of landscape in the experience of Christian pilgrimage across different denominations and its intersection with cultural heritage and tourism. The book focuses on pilgrimages to Meteora (Greece), Subiaco (Italy)...
International Perspectives on Pilgrimage Studies: Itineraries, Gaps and Obstacles
1st Edition
Edited
By John Eade, Dionigi Albera
June 28, 2018
Although research on contemporary pilgrimage has expanded considerably since the early 1990s, the conversation has largely been dominated by Anglophone researchers in anthropology, ethnology, sociology, and religious studies from the United Kingdom, the United States, France and Northern Europe. ...
The Seductions of Pilgrimage: Sacred Journeys Afar and Astray in the Western Religious Tradition
1st Edition
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By Michael A. Di Giovine, David Picard
February 12, 2018
The Seductions of Pilgrimage explores the simultaneously attractive and repellent, beguiling and alluring forms of seduction in pilgrimage. It focuses on the varied discursive, imaginative, and practical mechanisms of seduction that draw individual pilgrims to a pilgrimage site; the objects, places...
Pilgrimage to the National Parks: Religion and Nature in the United States
1st Edition
By Lynn Ross-Bryant
May 24, 2017
National Parks – ‘America’s Best Idea’ – were from the first seen as sacred sites embodying the God-given specialness of American people and American land, and from the first they were also marked as tourist attractions. The inherent tensions between these two realities ensured the parks would be ...
The Camino de Santiago in the 21st Century: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Global Views
1st Edition
Edited
By Samuel Sánchez y Sánchez, Annie Hesp
March 29, 2017
The Spanish Camino de Santiago, a pilgrimage rooted in the Medieval period and increasingly active today, has attracted a growing amount of both scholarly and popular attention. With its multiple points of departure in Spain and other European countries, its simultaneously secular and religious ...
Muslim and Catholic Pilgrimage Practices: Explorations Through Java
1st Edition
By Albertus Bagus Laksana
October 31, 2016
Exploring the distinctive nature and role of local pilgrimage traditions among Muslims and Catholics, Muslim and Catholic Pilgrimage Practices draws particularly on south central Java, Indonesia. In this area, the hybrid local Muslim pilgrimage culture is shaped by traditional Islam, the ...
Pilgrimage, Politics and Place-Making in Eastern Europe: Crossing the Borders
1st Edition
By John Eade, Mario Katić
October 19, 2016
Since the beginning of the anthropology of pilgrimage, scant attention has been paid to pilgrimage and pilgrim places in central, eastern and south-eastern Europe. Seeking to address such a deficit, this book brings together scholars from central, eastern and south-eastern Europe to explore the ...
Pilgrimage in the Marketplace
1st Edition
By Ian Reader
December 18, 2015
The study of pilgrimage often centres itself around miracles and spontaneous populist activities. While some of these activities and stories may play an important role in the emergence of potential pilgrimage sites and in helping create wider interest in them, this book demonstrates that the ...