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Pilgrimage and Religious Mobilization in the World
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Pilgrimage and Religious Mobilization in the World

A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2024) | Viewed by 7500

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Mariano P. Barbato

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1. Center for Religion and Modernity, University of Münster, 48149 Münster, Germany
2. Faculty of Philosophy, University of Passau, 94030 Passau, Germany
Interests: political science; international relations; political theory; history; religion and politics; Europe; pilgrim studies; papacy
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Following the previous successful Special Issue on pilgrimage and religious mobilization in Europe, this call invites papers with a global focus as well as a focus on any specific area worldwide. Mega-sites and globalization events include places of pilgrimage and religious mobilization from Allahabad to Mecca, and from Jerusalem to Guadelupe and Rome, but smaller sites are also of importance for regional and local landscapes of pilgrimages in many areas of the world.

From the global perspective, religions typically possess a public dimension of social gathering, debate, and worship. The ritual of pilgrimage constitutes, in many religions, an important expression of this public dimension.

Pilgrimage has dimensions beyond the religious experience. Pilgrimages can spill over into various methods of religious mobilization with social, political, and economic impacts. When religious experiences combine with cultural landscapes and economic interests, questions of political power begin to arise. Different varieties of pilgrimage, from spiritual tourism to religious protest, shape the public dimension of pilgrimage and have an impact on various levels of European societies.

Pilgrim Studies is an emerging interdisciplinary field that takes these various sociological, cultural, geographical, economic, and political implications into account.

As with the first Special Issue which focused on Europe, this second Issue, with a worldwide focus, seeks to continue and elaborate on the existing research agendas and to establish a forum for new approaches, historical traditions, current trends, comparative approaches, conceptual developments, and methodological questions. Whose frames guide the pilgrims? Who profits from the pilgrims’ decisions? What kind of identity emerges when pilgrims depart and return?

This Special Issue invites contributions from the fields of political science, history, geography, theology, sociology, religious studies, philosophy, anthropology, media studies, literature studies, tourism and travel studies, and the whole range of humanities and social sciences. The submission of a broad range of papers from disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and multidisciplinary perspectives, in order to elaborate on the empirical and theoretical aspects of all forms of pilgrimage and related religious mobilization in the world, is encouraged.

Prof. Dr. Mariano P. Barbato
Guest Editor

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Football Disasters and Pilgrimage: Commemoration through Religious and Non-Religious Ritual and Materiality
by John Eade
Religions 2024, 15(5), 518; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15050518 - 23 Apr 2024
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Although the relationship between religion and football has gained considerable interest during the last twenty years, scant attention has been paid to the relationship between pilgrimage and football. This paper seeks to advance the study of this relationship through an exploration of collective [...] Read more.
Although the relationship between religion and football has gained considerable interest during the last twenty years, scant attention has been paid to the relationship between pilgrimage and football. This paper seeks to advance the study of this relationship through an exploration of collective memory about football disasters that throws fresh light on central themes within pilgrimage studies—pilgrimage as both a journey to a sacred place and the performance of diverse rituals at such places. The paper explores, in particular, the ways in which three different tragedies involving English football clubs have been commemorated through journeys to and ritual performance at places seen as sacred to those involved in commemoration—football stadiums and urban spaces, and cathedrals and pilgrimage shrines in England, Germany and Italy. Through this analysis, we seek to show how the commemoration of football disaster is linked to pilgrimage as a process where people seek healing and reconciliation through the public performance of rituals that link the local to the global. Full article
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Heritage Sites, Devotion, and Quality Enhancement in Tourism: The Promotion and Management of Ancient Marian Places of Worship along the Appian Way in Puglia and Basilicata
by Luigi Oliva and Anna Trono
Religions 2023, 14(12), 1548; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14121548 - 18 Dec 2023
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Religious tourism is a significant and growing field of tourism that overlaps with cultural tourism. It has the potential to improve the quality of life of those who live in places of faith or along routes of spiritual interest. Religious tourism involves a [...] Read more.
Religious tourism is a significant and growing field of tourism that overlaps with cultural tourism. It has the potential to improve the quality of life of those who live in places of faith or along routes of spiritual interest. Religious tourism involves a complex interplay of spiritual and economic motivations. Effective religious tourism management requires respect for spiritual values, partnerships, local engagement, and quality assessment. Devotional practices have evolved from medieval spiritual care to communal expressions and periodic rituals. This paper specifically analysed the characteristics of the Marian cult and pilgrimage flows to places of Marian faith. It examined their value potential from a religious and cultural perspective and their role as a particular attractor of experiential and quality tourism generated by the territorial context. The area of reference is the region of Puglia, which has often played the role of cultural bridge with the eastern coasts of the Mediterranean in the past. The second part of the paper focuses on the proposed itinerary along the Appian Way in its final route between Puglia and Basilicata. Marian shrines were sometimes the cause and sometimes the evidence of the cultural and economic poles that characterised the medieval and modern variants of this ancient road route. The study outlines a serial path that integrates the usual settlement or infrastructural levels of territorial knowledge with the Marian theme, which was analysed diachronically. An operational track in the contemporary territorial dimension emerged from the correlation of both the stratigraphic reading of the landscape and the interpretation of material and immaterial cultural heritage. This track aims to aggregate and promote the sustainable rediscovery of those places, which are largely cut off from the routes of mass tourism, in adherence to the most recent European and local cultural and landscape guidelines. Full article
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Journey or Destination? Rethinking Pilgrimage in the Western Tradition
by Anne E. Bailey
Religions 2023, 14(9), 1157; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14091157 - 11 Sep 2023
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Pilgrimage is undergoing a revival in western Europe, mainly as newly established or revitalised pilgrim routes, such as the Camino de Santiago in northern Spain. These trails have helped to foster the widespread idea that pilgrimage is essentially a journey: a spiritual or [...] Read more.
Pilgrimage is undergoing a revival in western Europe, mainly as newly established or revitalised pilgrim routes, such as the Camino de Santiago in northern Spain. These trails have helped to foster the widespread idea that pilgrimage is essentially a journey: a spiritual or “meaningful” journey undertaken slowly, and preferably on foot, in the medieval tradition. The purpose of this article is to problematise this journey-oriented understanding of pilgrimage in Christian and post-Christian societies and to suggest that the importance given to the pilgrimage journey by many scholars, and by wider society, is more a product of modern Western values and post-Reformation culture than a reflection of historical and current-day religious practices. Drawing on evidence from a range of contemporary sources, it shows that many medieval pilgrims understood pilgrimage as a destination-based activity as is still the case at numerous Roman Catholic shrines today. Full article
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