Religion, Pilgrimage, and Tourism: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies
Volume I: Methodology
General Introduction: "Religion, Pilgrimage, and Tourism: An Introduction"
Alex Norman and C. M. Cusack
Volume Introduction: "Aids for Navigation: Methods, Concepts, and Theories for the Study of Mobile Religions"
Alex Norman
Part 1: Pilgrimage Models
1. Victor Turner, ‘The Centre Out There: Pilgrim’s Goal’, History of Religions, vol. 12, no. 3 (1972), 191-230.
2. Barbara Nimri Aziz, ‘Personal Dimensions of the Sacred Journey: What Pilgrims Say’, Religious Studies 23, 1987, pp. 247-261.
3. Craig T. Palmer, Ryan O. Begley and Kathryn Coe, ‘In Defence of Differentiating Pilgrimage From Tourism,’ International Journal of Tourism Anthropology 2 (1), 2012, pp. 71-85.
4. Shampa Mazumdar and Sanjoy Mazumdar, ‘Religion and Place Attachment: A Study of Sacred Places’, Journal of Environmental Psychology 24 (2004), pp. 385-397.
5. James J. Preston, ‘Spiritual Magnetism: An Organising Principle for the Study of Pilgrimage’. In Alan Morinis (ed.), Sacred Journeys: The Anthropology of Pilgrimage (Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 1992), pp. 31-46.
6. Noga Collins-Kreiner, ‘Researching Pilgrimage: Continuity and Transformations’. Annals of Tourism Research 37(2), 2010, pp. 440-456.
Part 2: Tourism Models
7. Erik Cohen, ‘A Phenomenology of Tourist Experiences’, Sociology, vol. 13 (1979), pp. 179-201.
8. Gisbert Rinschede, ‘Forms of religious tourism’ Annals of Tourism Research 19 (1), 1992, 51–67.
9. Roxanne L. Euben, ‘The Comparative Politics of Travel’, Parallax 9(4), 2003, pp. 18-28.
10. Dean MacCannell, ‘Staged Authenticity’, American Journal of Sociology 79 (3), 1973, 589-603.
11. Nelson H. H. Graburn, ‘Tourism: The Sacred Journey’. In Valene L. Smith (ed.), Hosts and Guests: The Anthropology of Tourism (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989), pp. 17-31
12. Graham Dann, ‘Anomie, Ego-Enhancement and Tourism’, Annals of Tourism Research 4 (4), 1977, pp. 184-194.
Part 3: Modern Pilgrimage and Spiritual Tourism
13. Justine Digance, ‘Religious and Secular Pilgrimage: Journeys Redolent with Meaning’, in Tourism, Religion and Spiritual Journeys, eds Dallen J. Timothy and Daniel H. Olsen (London: Routledge, 2006), 36-48.
14. Alex Norman, ‘The Varieties of the Spiritual Tourist Experience’, Literature & Aesthetics 22 (1), 2012, 20-37.
15. David Brown, "Genuine Fakes," in The Tourist Image: Myths and Myth-Making in Tourism, ed. Tom Selwyn (Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 1996), 33-47.
16. Adrian Ivakhiv, ‘Nature and Self in New Age Pilgrimage,’ Culture and Religion, 4(1), 2003, pp. 93-118.
17. Curtis Coats, ‘Is the Womb Barren? A Located Study of Spiritual Tourism in Sedona, Arizona, and Its Possible Effects on Eco-consciousness’, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 2 (4), 2008, pp. 483–507.
18. Cohen, Erik, Ben-Yehuda, Nachman, and Aviad, Janet. 1987. "Recentering the World: The Quest for Elective Centers in a Secularized Universe." Sociological Review 35 (2), pp. 320–346.
Volume II: Historical StudiesVolume Introduction
Volume Introduction: "Religious Travel in Historical Contexts: Ancient, Medieval, Modern"
Carole M. Cusack
Part 1: Ancient World
19. Karljürgen G. Feuerherm, ‘Have Horn, Will Travel: The Journeys of Mesopotamian Deities’. In Philip A. Harland (ed.) Travel and Religion in Antiquity. Studies in Christianity and Judaism, vol. 21. (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011), 83-97.
20. Paul Cartledge, ‘The Greek Religious Festivals’. In Greek Religion and Society, edited by P.E. Easterling and J.V. Muir, 98–127. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985, pp. 98-127.
21. Nigel Crowther, ‘Visiting the Olympic Games in Ancient Greece: Travel and Conditions for Athletes and Spectators’. The International Journal of the History of Sport 18 (4), 2001, pp. 37-52.
22. Ian Rutherford, ‘Theoria and Darsan: Pilgrimage and Vision in Greece and India’, Classical Quarterly, 50 (1), 2000, pp. 133-146.
23. John Elsner, ‘Pausanias: A Greek Pilgrim in the Roman World’, Past and Present, 135, 1992, pp. 3-29
24. Blake Leyerle, ‘Landscape as Cartography in Early Christian Pilgrimage Narratives,’ Journal of the American Academy of Religion 64 (1), 1996, pp. 119-143.
Part 2: The Medieval World: Christian
25. Carol G. Zaleski, ‘St Patrick’s Purgatory: Pilgrimage Motifs in a Medieval Otherworld Vision’, Journal of the History of Ideas, 46 (4), 1985, pp. 467-485.
26. Barbara Abou-El Haj, ‘Santiago de Compostela in the Time of Diego Gelmirez’, Gesta, 36 (2), 1997, pp. 165-179.
27. Roger Stalley, ‘Sailing to Santiago: Medieval Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela and its Artistic Influence in Ireland;. In John Bradley (ed.), Settlement and Society in Medieval Ireland (Boethius Press, 1988), pp. 397-420.
28. Giles Constable, ‘Opposition to Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages’, Studia Gratiana 19, 1976, pp. 125-146.
Part 3: The Medieval World: Non-Christian
29. Helaine Silverman, ‘The Archaeological Identification of an Ancient Peruvian Pilgrimage Center’. World Archaeology 26 (1), 1994, pp. 1-18.
30. Cynthia Talbot, ‘Temples, Donors, and Gifts: Patterns of Patronage in Thirteenth Century South India’, Journal of Asian Studies, 50 (2), pp. 308-320.
31. Tansen Sen, ‘The Travel Records of Chinese Pilgrims Faxian, Xuanzang, and Yijing: Sources for Cross-Cultural Encounters Between Ancient China and Ancient India’, Education About Asia, 11(3), 2006, pp. 24-33.
32. Barbara Ambros, ‘Liminal Journeys: Pilgrimages of Noblewomen in Mid-Heian Japan’, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 24 (3-4), 1997, pp. 301-345.
33. F. E. Peters, ‘Origins’, in F. E. Peters, The Hajj: The Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca and the Holy Places, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994, pp. 3-59.
Part 4: The Early Modern World
34. N. R Farooqi, ‘Moguls, Ottomans and Pilgrims: Protecting the Routes to Mecca in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries’, The International History Review, 10 (2), 1988, pp. 198-220.
35. Mary Byrne McDonnell, ‘Patterns of Muslim Pilgrimage from Malaysia, 1885-1985’. In Dale F. Eickelman and James P. Piscatori (eds), Muslim Travellers: Pilgrimage, Migration, and the Religious Imagination (University of California Press, 1990), pp. 111-130.
Volume III: Modern Religious Pilgrimage
Volume Introduction: "Modern Pilgrimages: Places, Behaviours, and Sites of Contestation"
Carole M. Cusack
Part 1: Sites and Places
36. Michael Stausberg, ‘Religious Sites and Places’, Ch. 4 from Religions and Tourism: Crossroads, Destinations and Encounters (London: Routledge 2011), pp. 75-104.
37. Stephen D. Glazier ‘Pilgrimages in the Caribbean: A Comparison of Cases from Haiti and Trinidad’. In Alan Morinis (ed.), Sacred Journeys: the anthropology of pilgrimage (Greenwood Press, 1992), pp. 135-148.
38. Alex Norman and Mark Johnson (2011). ‘World Youth Day: The creation of a modern pilgrimage event for evangelical intent’. Journal of Contemporary Religion, 26, 3, 371-385.
39. Michael Madsen, ‘The Sanctification of Mormonism’s Historical Geography’, Geographies of Religions and Belief Systems, Vol. 1, Issue 1 (2006), pp. 51-73.
40. Lisbeth Mikaelsson, ‘Locality and Myth: The Resacralization of Selja and the Cult of St. Sunniva’. Numen 52 (2), 2005, pp. 191–225.
41. Mark W. MacWilliams, ‘Virtual Pilgrimages on the Internet’, Religion 32, 2002, 315-335.
Part 2: Pilgrim Behaviours
42. Ian Reader, ‘Pilgrimage, Practice, Meanings: Making Pilgrimages in Shikoku’, Ch. 1 from Making Pilgrimages: Meaning and Practice in Shikoku (University of Hawaii Press, 2005), pp. 9-36.
43. Nancy Louise Frey, ‘Pilgrims to Santiago’, Ch. 1 from Pilgrim Stories: On and Off the Road to Santiago (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), pp. 17-46.
44. Simon Theobald, ‘The shluchim, the Rebbe, and the tiggun olam: The Two Pilgrimages Within the World of the Chabad Lubavitch’. In Alex Norman (ed.), Journeys and Destinations: Studies in Travel, Identity, and Meaning (CSP 2013), pp. 243-264.
45. Kathryn Rountree, ‘Goddess Pilgrims as Tourists: Inscribing the Body Through Sacred Travel’. Sociology of Religion 63 (4), 2002, pp. 475-496.
46. Richard Sharpley and Priya Sundaram, ‘Tourism: A Sacred Journey? The Case of Ashram Tourism, India’, International Journal of Tourism Research 7, no. 3 (2005): 161–171.
Part 3: Contested Sites and Behaviours
47. Stephen R. Sizer, ‘The Ethical Challenges of Managing Pilgrimages to the Holy Land’. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management 11 (2-3), 1999, pp. 85-90.
48. Kama Maclean, ‘Seeing, Being Seen, and Not Being Seen: Pilgrimage, Tourism, and Layers of Looking at the Kumbh Mela’, Crosscurrents 2009, 319-341.
49. Jeanne Kormina, ‘Pilgrims, Priest and Local Religion in Contemporary Russia: Contested Religious Discourses’. Folklore 28, 2004, pp. 25-40.
50. Surinder Bhardwaj, ‘Non-Hajj Pilgrimage in Islam: A Neglected Dimension of Religious Circulation’, Journal of Cultural Geography 17 (2), 1998, pp. 69-87.
51. David B. Coplan, ‘Land From the Ancestors: Popular Religious Pilgrimage Along the South Africa-Lesotho Border’. Journal of Southern African Studies 29 (4), 2003, pp. 976-993.
52. Marion Bowman, ‘Going With the Flow: Contemporary Pilgrimage in Glastonbury’. In Peter Jan Margry (ed.), Shrines and Pilgrimage in the Modern World: New Itineraries into the Sacred (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2008), pp. 241-280.
Volume IV: Secular Pilgrimage and Spiritual TourismVolume Introduction
Volume Introduction: "‘Secular’ Travel in the Mirror of Religious Practice"
Alex Norman
Part 1: Politics
53. Andy Letcher, ‘The Scouring of the Shire: Fairies, Trolls and Pixies in Eco-Protest Culture,’ Folklore, 112(2), 2001, pp. 147-161.
54. Kevin Griffin, ‘Pilgrimage Through the Eyes of the Irish ‘Traveller’ Community’, International Journal of Tourism Policy 4 (2), 2012, 157-173.
55. Bruce Scates, ‘It’s like Mecca, like a pilgrimage: backpacker journeys’, chapter 8 in Return to Gallipoli: Walking the Battlefields of the Great War (CUP 2006), pp. 188-209.
56. Jon Altman, ‘Tourism Dilemmas For Aboriginal Australians’, Annals of Tourism Research, 16 (4), pp. 456-477.
Part 2: Popular Culture
57. Jennifer E. Porter, ‘Pilgrimage and the IDIC Ethic: Exploring Star Trek Convention Attendance as Pilgrimage’. In Ellen Badone and Sharon Roseman (eds), Intersecting Journeys: The Anthropology of Pilgrimage and Tourism (University of Illinois Press, 2004), pp. 160-179.
58. Cher Krause Knight, ‘Mickey, Minnie, and Mecca: Destination Disney World, Pilgrimage in the Twentieth Century’. In Dawn Perlmutter and Debra Koppman (eds), Reclaiming the Spiritual in Art: Contemporary Cross-Cultural Perspectives (SUNY, 1999), pp. 33-43.
59. Christine King, ‘His Truth Goes Marching On: Elvis Presley and the Pilgrimage to Graceland’. In Ian Reader and Tony Walter (eds), Pilgrimage in Popular Culture (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1993), 92-104.
60. Ricketts, Jeremy R. 2011. ‘Land of (Re) Enchantment: Tourism and Sacred Space at Roswell and Chimayó, New Mexico’. Journal of the Southwest 53 (2): 239–261.
Part 3: History
61. Carole M. Cusack, ‘History, Authenticity, and Tourism: Encountering the Medieval While Walking St Cuthbert’s Way’. In Alex Norman (ed.), Journeys and Destinations: Studies in Travel, Identity, and Meaning (CSP 2013), pp. 1-21
62. Laurajane Smith, ‘A Pilgrimage of Masculinity: The Stockman’s Hall of Fame and Outback Heritage Centre’, Australian Historical Studies Vol. 43, No. 3 (2012), pp. 462-482
63. Johanna J.M. Petsche, ‘Reflexivity and Objectivity in the Study of a Modern Esoteric Teacher: In the Footsteps of G.I. Gurdjieff’. In Alex Norman (ed.), Journeys and Destinations: Studies in Travel, Identity, and Meaning (CSP 2013), pp. 159-176.
64. John J. MacAloon, ‘Olympic Games and the Theory of Spectacle’. In John J. MacAloon (ed.), Rite, Drama, Festival, Spectacle: Rehearsals Toward a Theory of Cultural Performance (Institute for the Study of Human Issues Press: Philadelphia, 1984), pp. 241-280.
Part 4: Leisure as Identity
65. Mike Robinson, ‘the Emotional Tourist’. In David Picard and Mike Robinson (eds). Emotion in Motion (Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012), pp. 21-46
66. Korpela, Mari. 2010. ‘Me, Myself and I: Western Lifestyle Migrants in Search of Themselves in Varanasi, India’. Recreation and Society in Africa, Asia and Latin America 1 (1): 53–73
67. Sean Slavin, "Walking as Spiritual Practice: The Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela," Body and Society 9,3, (2003), 1-18.
68. Carole M. Cusack and Justine Digance, ‘Shopping For A Self’: Pilgrimage, Identity-Formation, and Retail Therapy’. In Graham St. John (ed.), Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance (New York: Berghahn Books, 2008), pp. 227-241
69. Rebecca Sheehan, ‘Tourism and Occultism in New Orleans's Jackson Square: Contentious and Cooperative Publics’. Tourism Geographies 14 (1), 2012, 73-97.
70. Narayanan, Yamini, and Jim Macbeth. 2009. ‘Deep in the Desert: Merging the Desert and the Spiritual through 4WD Tourism’. Tourism Geographies 11 (3): 369–389
Biography
Edited and with a new introduction by Alex Norman and Carole M. Cusack,
both of the University of Sydney, Australia
