Pilgrimage and Political Economy

Simon Coleman is Chancellor Jackman Professor at the Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto. His publications include Pilgrimage Past and Present in the World Religions (Harvard, 1995, with John Elsner), Pilgrim Voices: Authorship and Narrative in Christian Pilgrimage (Berghahn, 2003, edited with John Elsner) and “Guiding the Pilgrim” (Special Issue of Tourist Studies, 2015, edited with John Eade and Evgenia Mesaritou).

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Pilgrimage and Political Economy: Introduction to a Research AgendaSimon Coleman and John EadeChapter 1. From the Indian Ganges to a Mauritian Lake: Hindu Pilgrimage in a ‘Diasporic’ ContextMathieu ClaveyrolasChapter 2. Transnational Courting through Shakyamuni Buddha: Japanese Pilgrimage and Geographical Dowries in North IndiaDavid GearyChapter 3. Sufism and Pilgrimage Market: A Political Economy of a Shrine in Southern PakistanRémy DelageChapter 4. Allah Always Hears the Prayers of a Traveller: Nationalized Shrines and Transnational Imaginaries in BukharaMaria LouwChapter 5. ‘Pilgrimage Capital’ and Bosnian Croat Pilgrimage Places: Bosnian Croat Pilgrimages and Transnational Ties through Time and SpaceMario KatićChapter 6. Translating Catholic Pilgrimage Sites into Energy Grammar: Contested Spiritual Practices in Chartres and VézelayAnna FedeleChapter 7. A Pentecostal Shrine in Mexico: Ethnography of Migration and PilgrimagePatricia Fortuny Loret de MolaChapter 8. The Paths of Saint James in Brazil: Body, Spirituality and MarketCarlos Alberto SteilAfterword: Going Beyond the Elusive Nature of PilgrimageDionigi AlberaIndex

“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