Routledge Studies in Pilgrimage, Religious Travel and Tourism
About the Book Series
Pilgrimage, defined here as people’s journeys to and from places of special significance as well as what they do at these places, has been a perennial activity in human history and remains very popular worldwide. Old pilgrimage routes can be observed from palaeolithic times across all religions and religious cultures, and many of these have been restored while new ones continue to be created; pilgrimage destinations – local, regional, national and international − attract increasing numbers of visitors’ places as well as media attention. Such developments are part of a global process where different forms of travel – physical movement such as labour and lifestyle migration, tourism of various forms, the cultural heritage industry – have become a major feature of the modern world. These developments involve relations between people and other-than-humans. They also involve the creation of art, buildings and other material constraints to sacralise the countryside, and have done so from the beginning.
This series, established in 2015, includes studies from global and cross-cultural perspectives of topics, such as:
- pilgrimage as journey and human practice at destinations
- history of pilgrimage
- landscape and performance
- pilgrimage and travel writing;
- heritage and tourism
- gender and sexuality
- political economy of pilgrimage
- material culture
- relations between humans and other-than-humans
- ideological and violent struggles over religion and resistance to tourist intrusion
- inter-religious engagement and comparative pilgrimage
- pilgrimage to sites of suffering
The Seductions of Pilgrimage: Sacred Journeys Afar and Astray in the Western Religious Tradition
1st Edition
Edited
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 ...