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 ...
Military Pilgrimage and Battlefield Tourism: Commemorating the Dead
1st Edition
Edited
By John Eade, Mario Katić
December 12, 2019
Military Pilgrimage and Battlefield Tourism is the first volume to bring together a detailed analysis of professional military pilgrimage with other forms of commemorating military conflict. The volume looks beyond the discussion of battlefield tourism undertaken primarily by civilians which has ...
Muslim Pilgrimage in Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Ingvild Flaskerud, Richard J. Natvig
December 12, 2019
In spite of Islam’s long history in Europe and the growing number of Muslims resident in Europe, little research exists on Muslim pilgrimage in Europe. This collection of eleven chapters is the first systematic attempt to fill this lacuna in an emerging research field. Placing the pilgrims’ ...
Mobile Lifeworlds: An Ethnography of Tourism and Pilgrimage in the Himalayas
1st Edition
By Christopher A. Howard
December 10, 2019
Mobile Lifeworlds illustrates how the imaginaries and ideals of Western travellers, especially those of untouched nature and spiritual enlightenment, are consistent with media representations of the Himalayan region, romanticism and modernity at large. Blending tourism and pilgrimage, travel across...
New Pathways in Pilgrimage Studies: Global Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Dionigi Albera, John Eade
December 10, 2019
Although there has been a massive increase in the volume of pilgrimage research and publications, traditional Anglophone scholarship has been dominated by research in Western Europe and North America. In their previous edited volume, International Perspectives on Pilgrimage Studies (Routledge, 2015...
Excavating Pilgrimage: Archaeological Approaches to Sacred Travel and Movement in the Ancient World
1st Edition
Edited
By Troels Myrup Kristensen, Wiebke Friese
November 28, 2019
This volume sheds new light on the significance and meaning of material culture for the study of pilgrimage in the ancient world, focusing in particular on Classical and Hellenistic Greece, the Roman Empire and Late Antiquity. It thus discusses how archaeological evidence can be used to advance our...
Art and the Sacred Journey in Britain, 1790-1850
1st Edition
By Kathryn Barush
January 10, 2019
The practice of walking to a sacred space for personal and spiritual transformation has long held a place in the British imagination. Art and the Sacred Journey in Britain examines the intersections of the concept of pilgrimage and the visual imagination from the years 1790 to 1850. Through a close...
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. ...