Description
Reframing Pilgrimage argues that sacred travel is just one of the twenty-first century's many forms of cultural mobility. The contributors consider the meanings of pilgrimage in Christian, Mormon, Hindu, Islamic and Sufi traditions, as well as in secular contexts, and they create a new theory of pilgrimage as a form of voluntary displacement. This voluntary displacement helps to constitute cultural meaning in a world constantly 'en route'. Pilgrimage, which works both on global economic and individual levels, is recognised as a highly creative and politically charged force intimately bound up in economic and cultural systems
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction, Simon Coleman, John Eade; Chapter 2 ‘Being there’, Hildi Mitchell; Chapter 3 From England's Nazareth to Sweden's Jerusalem, Simon Coleman; Chapter 4 Going and not going to Porokhane, Eva Evers Rosander; Chapter 5 Embedded motion, Bente Nikolaisen; Chapter 6 ‘Heartland of America’, Jill Dubisch; Chapter 7 Coming home to the Motherland, Katharina Schramm; Chapter 8 Route metaphors of ‘roots-tourism’ in the Scottish Highland diaspora, Paul Basu; Bibliography Index;
