In 1970, Wendell Berry described nature poetry as a ‘secular pilgrimage’. 1 While recognising the laic nature of much environmental wayfaring, the contemporary Scottish nature poet Alec Finlay (b. 1966) importantly observes that this
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The Non-Secular Pilgrimage
Walking and Looking in Ken Cockburn and Alec Finlay’s The Road North
Alice Tarbuck and Simone Kotva
Non “Religious” Knowing in Pilgrimages to Sacred Sites
Greek Cypriots’ “return” Pilgrimages to the Monastery of Apostolos Andreas (Cyprus)
Evgenia Mesaritou
Although pilgrimages are often directed toward what are conventionally seen as “religious” sites, religious and ritual forms of knowledge may not necessarily be the only, or even the most prominent, forms in their workings. Such types of knowledge
Heritage Tourism and Neoliberal Pilgrimages
Smita Yadav
This special issue of Journeys revolves around global heritage sites and focuses on the many paradoxes of global pilgrimage in the current neoliberal era. In the case studies presented herein, heritage sites are considered to be sites of social
‘Pilgrimage of the Poor’
Religious, Social and Political Dimensions of a Moroccan Local Pilgrimage
Kholoud Al-Ajarma
The Day of Arafah is the holiest day in the Islamic calendar, and refers to the second day of the Hajj pilgrimage, the fifth pillar of Islam. On the same day, hundreds of people also gather at sites in Morocco where they perform a ritual known
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Introduction
Knowledge, Ignorance, and Pilgrimage
Evgenia Mesaritou, Simon Coleman, and John Eade
The field of pilgrimage studies has greatly expanded in recent years, with scholarship being produced on “secular” pilgrimages ( Margry 2008 ), the political economy of pilgrimage ( Coleman and Eade 2018a ), the relationship of pilgrimage with
Pilgrimage Guides to the Holy Land
Past and Present
Yvonne Friedman and Shulamit Furstenberg-Levi
“A successful pilgrimage depends completely on the guide … it is most effective to have only one guide accompanying a group.” —Padre Gianfranco Pinto Ostuni, director of the Delegazione di Terra Santa, 2016 To date, guiding, a significant aspect of
The Labor of and Labor in Post-Medjugorje Slideshows
Marc Roscoe Loustau
Scholars in the field of pilgrimage studies have recently turned their attention toward rituals of return, the practices that pilgrims use to reintegrate themselves back into society after their journeys ( Dubisch 1996 ; Fedele 2012 ). In this
Architectural Pilgrimage
Joshua Nash
Architectural pilgrimage is implicitly appreciated in architecture and design circles, especially by students who are encouraged to “travel to architecture,” with the focus on the Grand Tour as a means of architectural exploration. However, the expression has not been made explicit in the fields of architectural history, pilgrimage studies, tourism research, and mobility studies. I explore how pilgrimage to locations of modern architectural interest affects and informs pilgrims' and architects' conceptions of buildings and the pilgrimage journey itself. Drawing initially on a European architectural pilgrimage, the personal narrative highlights the importance of self-reflection and introspection when observing the built environment and the role of language in mediating processes of movement through and creation of architectural place-space.
Knowledge at a Distance, Authority, and the Pilgrim's Gaze—A Reflection
Jackie Feldman
transmitted, or the ignorance that can be overcome through pilgrimage. In the beginning was the event that bound together the sacrifier, the sacrificed, and the altar. The initial knowledge of the event is sanctified, maintained, and propagated through the
Liturgical Time in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Meditated, Measured and Manipulated
Alireza Mahdipour, Hossein Pirnajmuddin, and Pyeaam Abbasi
liturgy is the pilgrimage, which is a quest for the past, aptly used by Chaucer as his framework for the Tales . Apart from being a means of social and ideological order and hegemony, liturgies are means of observation and controlling of time in the