Pilgrimage in the Marketplace

Reader, Ian

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“…Pilgrimage is particularly pronounced within the Roman Catholic denomination, although, modern Catholicism tends to emphasise interior piety over external practice and social customs (Cunningham & Gillespie, 2004). Throughout the world, Catholic pilgrimage encompasses a broad range of shrines and activities, including long-distance walks, typified by the Camino de Santiago; sacred sites of liturgical and communal activity, such as Lourdes or Fatima; and, notably for this study, local journeys to shrines, especially on ecclesiastical feast days (Foley, 2010;Reader, 2013;Walsham, 2011). It is notable that within Christian practice (as with world-wide pilgrimage), the majority of pilgrims are women, in contrast to the predominantly male management of pilgrimage shrines (Shackley, 2001).…”

Section: Geographies Of Religion and Interdisciplinary Pilgrimage Stumentioning

confidence: 99%

Celtic pilgrimage, past and present: from historical geography to contemporary embodied practices

Maddrell

Scriven

2016

Social & Cultural Geography

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Perigrinatio, the Latin term for pilgrimage was at the heart of the medieval Celtic church, but was this was understood and practised not only as a journey to a shrine, but more broadly as a spiritual journey, which could lead to an isolated hermitage or peripatetic evangelistic mission. In this paper, we outline the beliefs and practices of the broad assemblage known as the Celtic church, particularly the interleaving of pilgrimage, asceticism and landscape poetics, and how these have informed continued and renewed pilgrimage practices to sites of the early Celtic church by particular denominations, ecumenical groups and those interested in broader spiritualities. These sacred mobilities are explored through vignettes of embodied-emotionalspiritual practices situated in the landscapes and faith communities of Lough Derg, Ireland and the Isle of Man. They share geographical marginality, a focus on multiple Celtic saints and an enduring belief in the immanence of God, expressed through embodied spiritual practice in the landscape. However, they differ widely in matters of institutionalised structure, regulation, discursive scripting and gendered hierarchy, reflecting situated and denominational preferences for the ascetic and aesthetic spiritual legacies of the medieval Celtic church.Keywords: Celtic; pilgrimage; spiritualities; embodied-mobilities; landscape Pélerinage celtique, passé et présent: de la géographie historique aux pratiques incarnées contemporaines Perigrinatio, le terme latin pour pèlerinage était au coeur de l'église médiévale celtique mais il était compris et pratiqué non seulement comme un voyage vers un lieu saint, mais aussi plus généralement comme un voyage spirituel, qui pouvait mener à un ermitage isolé ou une mission évangéliste péripatétique. Dans cet article, nous présentons les grandes lignes des croyances et pratiques du vaste assemblage connu sous le nom de l'église celtique, en particulier l'entrelacement du pèlerinage, de l'ascétisme et des poésies du paysage et de la façon dont ils ont inspiré, continué et renouvelé les pratiques de pèlerinage vers des sites de l'église celtique primitive par certaines confessions, groupes oecuméniques et par ceux qui s'intéressent aux spiritualités au sens large. Ces mobilités sacrées sont explorées à travers des vignettes de pratiques émotionnelles-spirituelles incarnées situées dans les paysages et les communautés croyantes de Lough Derg en Irlande et sur l'île de Man. Elles partagent la marginalité géographique, une focalisation sur de nombreux saints celtiques et une croyance durable dans l'immanence de Dieu, exprimées à travers la pratique spirituelle incarnée dans le paysage. Toutefois, elles diffèrent considérablement dans les domaines de la structure institutionnalisée, de la règlementation, de l'écriture discursive et de la hiérarchie selon le sexe, reflétant des préférences situées et confession- & Cultural Geography, 2016 Vol. 17, No. 2, 300-321, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2015 nelles pour les héritages ascétiques et esthéti...

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Section: Geographies Of Religion and Interdisciplinary Pilgrimage Stumentioning

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Celtic pilgrimage, past and present: from historical geography to contemporary embodied practices

Maddrell

Scriven

2016

Social & Cultural Geography

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“…In many parts of the Muslim world, Islamic consumerism has been made possible by the emergence of new Muslim urban middle classes (McLoughlin 2015;Werbner 2015). Members of these new Muslim middle classes are the main actors in the commodification and marketization of Meccan pilgrimage and particular local pilgrimage sites Reader 2014). Notably, in some countries, most strikingly in parts of Asia, transnational labour migration, mobile entrepreneurship and new urban middle-class religiosities are highly feminized (Frisk 2009;Stivens 1998).…”

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Muslim Women’s Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond

Buitelaar¹,

Stephan-Emmrich²,

Thimm³

2020

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This book investigates female Muslims pilgrimage practices and how these relate to women's mobility, social relations, identities, and the power structures that shape women's lives. Bringing together scholars from different disciplines and regional expertise, it offers in-depth investigation of the gendered dimensions of Muslim pilgrimage and the life-worlds of female pilgrims. With a variety of case studies, the contributors explore the experiences of female pilgrims to Mecca and other pilgrimage sites, and how these are embedded in historical and current contexts of globalisation and transnational mobility. This volume will be relevant to a broad audience of researchers across pilgrimage, gender, religious, and Islamic studies.

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“…Bowman (), for example, suggests that pilgrimage sites are spaces of negotiation characterized by “multivocality.” As such, sites can be characterized either by competition (Hayden ) or negotiation and sharing (Bowman ). Further studies have attended to pilgrimage as a specific form of tourism (Cohen‐Hattab and Shoval ; Stausberg ; Timothy and Olsen ) and the ways that pilgrimages are entangled with systems of exchange (Coleman and Eade ; Reader ), cultural consumption practices (Kaufman ), and political realities (Eade and Katić ; Thal ). Such studies suggest that no modern pilgrimage can be understood outside the scope of commercial tourism and politics, but neither can pilgrimage be reduced to any one of these.…”

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A Social Fields Theory of Pilgrimage: African American Christians in Israel and Palestine

Baumann

2019

Sociological Forum

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What is pilgrimage and how should we understand its social significance? Traditional analyses of religiously motivated travel have focused on praxis and ritual. Contemporary analyses have further analyzed pilgrimage as a site where religion, politics, economy, and cultural production converge. This article argues that such convergence is best understood as the product of overlapping and interacting social fields and that particular pilgrimages—as sites of contestation and negotiation—take shape in the interstitial spaces between fields. Using the case of African American Christian pilgrimage to Israel and Palestine as the “Holy Land,” this article examines the relationship between overlapping fields and the negotiation of competing interests on pilgrimage. It suggests cultural framing work as a mechanism by which actors manage tensions between these fields and their interests.

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Pilgrimage in the Marketplace

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Celtic pilgrimage, past and present: from historical geography to contemporary embodied practices

Celtic pilgrimage, past and present: from historical geography to contemporary embodied practices

Muslim Women’s Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond

A Social Fields Theory of Pilgrimage: African American Christians in Israel and Palestine

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