Anne Fedele offers a comprehensive ethnography of alternative pilgrimages to French
Catholic shrines dedicated to Saint Mary Magdalene. Drawing on more than three years of …

Since the 1950s, millions of American Christians have traveled to the Holy Land to visit
places in Israel and the Palestinian territories associated with Jesus's life and death. Why do …

This book describes a ubiquitous and potent emotion that has only rarely and recently been
studied in any systematic manner. The words that come closest to denoting it in English are …

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 …

In this introduction the theme of prayer is brought into an anthropological discussion.
Attending to prayers and how they are performed and seen to intervene in a social world is a …

Perigrinatio, the Latin term for pilgrimage was at the heart of the medieval Celtic church, but
was this was understood and practised not only as a journey to a shrine, but more broadly …

Drawing on existing research in the fields of pilgrimage and tourism studies, the introduction
to this special issue reviews the ways in which guiding has been theorized and explored …

The importance and significance of gender in religious ideas, practices and experiences is
increasingly acknowledged and studied.[2] As these studies show, religion is a thoroughly …

" The book explores the ritual geography of a pilgrimage system woven around medieval
local saints in Norway, and the renaissance of pilgrimage in contemporary majority …

Due to deep-seated political tensions and intermittent violence between various streams of
the city's three major religions, Jerusalem's sacred landscape is in the midst of significant …