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 …

During the last 60 years three forms of mobility have played a crucial role in the process of
home-making across London–global migration, suburbanisation and gentrification. While …

The text engages with the ongoing discussion about the role played by religion in social life,
with attention paid to transnational dynamics of religiosity in migrants' individual …

Throughout Catholic Europe there has been a resurgence of interest in pilgrimage since the
1990s, despite dramatic declines in regular attendance at mass and other indicators of …

This article examines the social dynamics at sacred “womb tombs” in an effort to discern this
architectural form's impact on contemporary religious experience, politics, and landscapes …

This chapter deals with West and Central African women in Paris and their religious
strategies to overcome the kin-related problems they face in their post-migration life. No …

Based on fieldwork conducted with pilgrims traveling from England to the Marian apparition
shrine of Lourdes, this article will focus on the experience of serial pilgrims, those who have …

Oslo 2004-2010. Culcom utgjorde et unikt, inspirerende miljø ledet av professor ved
sosialantropologisk institutt ved UiO, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, som dessuten også var min …

ABSTRACT The resettlement of Polish, Latvian and Ukrainian refugees in post-Second
World War Queensland, Australia provides a case study of the role of religious organisations …

This chapter focuses on women's religious mobility in post-migration life and underlines that
migration should no longer be perceived as the exception to a sedentary rule. Just as it is …