PPR484:Pilgrimage

Objectives

The subject area of this module is the sites and locations across the globe that are widely regarded as pilgrimage sites or routes, the activities, experiences and thoughts of those who visit them and those who are involved with the promotion and upkeep of such routes and centres, and the meanings of such journeys and activities. The focus is world-wide in terms of focus on geography and traditions, with examples being drawn from Asia (but especially Japan and India), Europe, North and Latin America) and from Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, Christian (predominantly Catholic) and 'non-denominational sites. While the main focus is on pilgrimage in the contemporary era, some emphasis is also be placed on historical issues as well.

Among the topics discussed in the module are:

• Defining 'pilgrimage' in global contexts
• Articulating the pilgrimage
• Asceticism and the package tour
• Geographies and landscapes in the framing of pilgrimage
• Making pilgrimages
• Secularised pilgrimages
• Embedded in the everyday: pilgrimage, social structures, memorials to the dead. and ways of life.
• Contests, conflicts and turbulence: pilgrimage as a means of division and political protest.
• Pilgrimage in an age of secularisation and institutional religious decline.
• Hiking, heritage and holidays: Pilgrimage centres as UNESCO World Heritage sites and pilgrimage routes as hiking trails and holiday destinations

Select Bibliography

Badone, E and S.R. Roseman (eds) 2004 Intersecting Journeys: The Anthropology of Pilgrimage and Tourism.

Bhardwaj, S.M. 1973 Hindu Places of Pilgrimage in India: A Study in Cultural Geography (Berkeley: U of California Press)

Coleman, S., and J. Eade (eds) Reframing Pilgrimage (Routledge 2005)

Davies, Horton and Marie-Hélène, 1982 Holy Days and Holidays: The Medieval Pilgrimage to Compostela

Dubisch, J 1995 In Another Place: pilgrimage, gender, and politics at a Greek island

Eade, J and M. J. Sallnow 1991 Contesting the Sacred: The Anthropology of Christian Pilgrimage.

Eck. D Banaras: City of Light

Eickelman, D and J. Piscatori (eds) Muslim Travellers: pilgrimage, migration and the religious imagination.

Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 1997 Vol. 24/3-4, Special double issue on Pilgrimage in Japan

Lochtefeld, J. G. 2010 God's gateway: Identity and Meaning in a Hindu Pilgrimage Place (OUP).

Morinis, A (ed.) 1993 Sacred Journeys: The anthropology of pilgrimage

Naquin, Susan, and Chun-Fang YU, eds. 1992 Pilgrims and Sacred Sites in China.

Reader, I 2005 Making Pilgirmages: Meaning and Practice in Shikoku

Reader, Iand T.Walter eds.1993 Pilgrimage in Popular Culture.

Sax, W.S. 1991 Mountain Goddess: Gender and Politics in a Himalayan Pilgrimage.

Smith, M 2008 Religion, Culture and Sacred Space (Palgrave)

Stausberg, M 2011 Religion and Tourism: crossroads, destinations and encounters (Routledge)

Thal, S 2005 Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods: the politics of a pilgrimage site in Japan, 1573-1912. Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Timothy, Dalln J, and D.H. Olson (eds) 2006 Tourism, Religion and Spiritual Journeys (Routledge)

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