1st Edition

International Perspectives on Pilgrimage Studies Itineraries, Gaps and Obstacles

Edited By John Eade, Dionigi Albera Copyright 2015
226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Although research on contemporary pilgrimage has expanded considerably since the early 1990s, the conversation has largely been dominated by Anglophone researchers in anthropology, ethnology, sociology, and religious studies from the United Kingdom, the United States, France and Northern Europe. This volume challenges the hegemony of Anglophone scholarship by considering what can be learned from... Read more

1. International Perspectives on Pilgrimage Studies: Putting the Anglophone Contribution in Its Place Dionigi Albera and John Eade 2. Japanese Studies of Pilgrimage Ian Reader 3. Touching the Holy: Orthodox Christian pilgrimage within Russia Stella Rock 4. Old and New Paths of Polish Pilgrimages Anna Niedźwiedź 5. Pilgrimages in Hungary: Ethnological and Anthropological Approaches Gábor Barna 6. From Religious Folklore Studies to Research of Popular Religiosity: Pilgrimage Studies in German-speaking Europe Helmut Eberhart 7. Studying Jewish Pilgrimage in Israel Nimrod Luz and Noga Collins Kreiner 8. Italian Studies on Pilgrimage. Beyond Folklore towards a National Anthropological Tradition and the International Circulation of Ideas Elena Zapponi 9. From Cryptic to Critique: Early and Contemporary French Contributions to the Study of Pilgrimage Anna Fedele and Cyril Isnart

Biography

Dionigi Albera is a Director of Research in the CNRS and leads the Institute of Mediterranean, European and Comparative Ethnology at the University of Aix-Marseille.

John Eade is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Roehampton, Research Fellow at the Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto and co-founder of the Routledge Religion, Travel and Tourism series.