Description
Book Synopsis Pilgrimage has always had a tendency to follow—and sometimes create—trade routes. This volume explores how wider factors behind transnational and global mobility have impacted on pilgrimage activity across the world, and examines the ways in which pilgrimage relates to migration, diaspora, and political cooperation or conflict across nation-states. Furthermore, it brings together case studies that explore forms of mobility where pilgrimage is juxtaposed, complements, or is in intimate association with other forms of movement.
Trade Review “This volume is an important new step within the field of pilgrimage studies, challenging Eurocentric (and Protestant-oriented) concepts of ‘pilgrimage’, ‘religion’, and the ‘sacred’ within the field of social sciences.” • Anna Niedźwiedź, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
“The book is a welcome addition to the anthropology of pilgrimage, and makes a good case for what the study of pilgrimage and its contexts can contribute to an understanding of broader social processes in the contemporary world. It covers a wide range of locales and religions, and, while focused on contemporary ethnography, also includes historical and philological reflections.” • Jackie Feldman, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
Introduction: Pilgrimage and Political Economy: Introduction to a Research Agenda
Simon Coleman and John Eade
Chapter 1. From the Indian Ganges to a Mauritian Lake: Hindu Pilgrimage in a ‘Diasporic’ Context
Mathieu Claveyrolas
Chapter 2. Transnational Courting through Shakyamuni Buddha: Japanese Pilgrimage and Geographical Dowries in North India
David Geary
Chapter 3. Sufism and Pilgrimage Market: A Political Economy of a Shrine in Southern Pakistan
Rémy Delage
Chapter 4. Allah Always Hears the Prayers of a Traveller: Nationalized Shrines and Transnational Imaginaries in Bukhara
Maria Louw
Chapter 5. ‘Pilgrimage Capital’ and Bosnian Croat Pilgrimage Places: Bosnian Croat Pilgrimages and Transnational Ties through Time and Space
Mario Katić
Chapter 6. Translating Catholic Pilgrimage Sites into Energy Grammar: Contested Spiritual Practices in Chartres and Vézelay
Anna Fedele
Chapter 7. A Pentecostal Shrine in Mexico: Ethnography of Migration and Pilgrimage
Patricia Fortuny Loret de Mola
Chapter 8. The Paths of Saint James in Brazil: Body, Spirituality and Market
Carlos Alberto Steil
Afterword: Going Beyond the Elusive Nature of Pilgrimage
Dionigi Albera
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