Mario Katić is Associate Professor at the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology at the University of Zadar.John Eade is Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Roehampton and Visiting Professor at Toronto University.

• 1 Approaching Pilgrimage: IntroductionMario Katić and John EadePart I Time and Pilgrimage2 The Method of Participant Observation, Communication and Changing Pilgrimage Practices John Eade3 Twists, Turns and Changing directions: reflections on long-term studies on a Japanese pilgrimage path Ian ReaderPart II Positionality and Experiencing Pilgrimage 4 Displacing religion in Greek Cypriot Pilgrimages to the Turkish-occupied Monastery of Apostolos Andreas in CyprusEvgenia Mesaritou5 Walking the Sutra: A Semiotic Theory of PilgrimageTatsuma PadoanPart III Multi-Site and Multi-Role Ethnography and Pilgrimage 6 Researching the Baptism Sites along the Jordan River – A Multi-sited Ethnography of Adjacent PlacesLior Chen7 Multi-sited and multi-role research of Bosnian Croat pilgrimagesMario KatićPart IV Methodological Techniques and Tactics 8 Epistemological and ethical challenges of gathering and interpreting personal prayers from the archivesMirela Hrovatin9 The Visual Anthropology of Pilgrimages: Exploring the Making of Films and PhotographsManoël Pénicaud10 The Ethnography of Hasidic Pilgrimage in the Digital AgeGabi Abramac11 Studying Mecca elsewhere. Exploring the meanings of the hajj for Muslims in Morocco and the NetherlandsKholoud Al-Ajarma and Marjo Buitelaar12 Concluding ThoughtsSimon Coleman