Redefining Pilgrimage

Antón M. Pazos is Vice Director of the Instituto de Estudios Gallegos Padre Sarmiento (Spanish National Research Council, CSIC) in Santiago de Compostela and President of the Commission Internationale d'Histoire et d'Études du Christianisme (CIHEC).

• Introduction Antón M. Pazos 1 Conventional and Unconventional Pilgrimages: Conceptualizing Sacred Travel in the Twenty-First Century Ellen Badone 2 Old Pilgrimages, New Meanings; New Pilgrimages, Old Forms: From the Ganges to Graceland David M. Gitlitz 3 Pilgrimage and the American Myth George Greenia 4 Heaven on Earth: Political Pilgrimages and the Pursuit of Meaning and Self-Transcendence Paul Hollander 5 Israeli Youth Voyages to Holocaust Poland: Through the Prism of Pilgrimage Jackie Feldman 6 The Pilgrimage to the Hill of Crosses: Devotional Practices and Identities Darius Liutikas and Alfonsas Motuzas 7 The Saint and His Cat: Localization of Religious Charisma in Contemporary Russian Orthodox Pilgrimages Jeanne Kormina 8 Walking to Mother Teresa’s Grave Brian Kolodiejchuk, MC 9 Reformulations of the Pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela Linda Kay Davidson

This book is essential reading for anybody interested in understanding contemporary pilgrimage. It takes us round the world with vivid and sometimes unexpected case-studies, but also rigorously tests established theories and categories. Above all, we learn of the vital significance of pilgrimage, in its conventional and unconventional forms.'Simon Coleman, University of Toronto, Canada