Approaching Pilgrimage

Methodological Issues Involved in Researching Routes, Sites and Practices
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-367-68485-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 299 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Pilgrimage, Religious Travel and Tourism

This volume seeks to explore pilgrimage studies as a distinctive sub-field of research, and to define its key methodological approaches and problems. Pilgrimage studies has long been influenced by such academic disciplines as anthropology and this volume considers the new insights that pilgrimage studies can offer to these disciplinary fields. Bringing together experienced pioneers and a younger generation of pilgrimage scholars, the chapters address the directions contemporary pilgrimage research is taking and how it is developing into the future. Covering topics like digital pilgrimage, multi-site pilgrimages, and long-term ethnography, with examples from Europe, the Middle East, and Japan, this is an important resource for all researchers engaging with pilgrimage.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Katic, Mario

Eade, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Liturgik, Christliche Anbetung, Sakramente, Rituale, Feiertage
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Gottesdienst, Riten und Zeremonien
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Approaching Pilgrimage: Introduction

Mario Katic and John Eade

Part I Time and Pilgrimage

2 The Method of Participant Observation, Communication and Changing Pilgrimage Practices 

John Eade

3 Twists, Turns and Changing directions:  reflections on long-term studies on a Japanese pilgrimage path 

Ian Reader

Part II Positionality and Experiencing Pilgrimage

4 Displacing religion in Greek Cypriot Pilgrimages to the Turkish-occupied Monastery of Apostolos Andreas in Cyprus

Evgenia Mesaritou

5 Walking the Sutra: A Semiotic Theory of Pilgrimage

Tatsuma Padoan

Part III Multi-Site and Multi-Role Ethnography and Pilgrimage

6 Researching the Baptism Sites along the Jordan River – A Multi-sited Ethnography of Adjacent Places

Lior Chen

7 Multi-sited and multi-role research of Bosnian Croat pilgrimages

Mario Katic

Part IV Methodological Techniques and Tactics

8 Epistemological and ethical challenges of gathering and interpreting personal prayers from the archives

Mirela Hrovatin

9 The Visual Anthropology of Pilgrimages: Exploring the Making of Films and Photographs

Manoël Pénicaud

10 The Ethnography of Hasidic Pilgrimage in the Digital Age

Gabi Abramac

11 Studying Mecca elsewhere. Exploring the meanings of the hajj for Muslims in Morocco and the Netherlands

Kholoud Al-Ajarma and Marjo Buitelaar

12 Concluding Thoughts

Simon Coleman

Über Autor(innen)

Mario Katic 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.