Enchanting Pasts: The Role of International Civil Religious Pilgrimage in Reimagining National Collective Memory

West, Brad

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9558.2008.00328.x

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“…Representative of such accounts Buchanan and James (1998) argue that the myth of Gallipoli is essentially conservative, masking "such issues as rape in war, the betrayal of our war-time ally East Timor, and the wars of 'settlement' on our soil when colonisation of the Aboriginal peoples of this country allowed for the original 'forging of a nation'" (1998, p. 26). The problem with such a conception of nationalism is that it does not appreciate the possibility of ritual and collective memory reimagining national history in more global and cosmopolitan ways (West 2008a. As outlined below the actual experiences of Australian tourists on the battlefields since 1990 and the accommodating of these by local tourist operators have had a significant effect on broader national understandings of Gallipoli and as a consequence national identity generally.…”

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“…For instance, some people begin battlefield excursions as tourists but wind up as secular pilgrims who empathise with former enemies (Gatewood & Cameron 2004;Hannaford & Newton 2008;West 2008), while others undertake tours that combine elements of travel, sporting competition, 'dark' tourism, intercultural understanding and humanitarianism (Berger et al, 2007;SPORTS TOURISM EXPERIENCES 10 McKay, in press). Crouch and Desforges (2004) encapsulated this fluid and reflexive postmodern scenario in stating that, 'the tourist is not only "a tourist" and draws upon complex significations in her/his practice of space through events and encounters' (p. 10).…”

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Intimations of postmodernity in sports tourism at the Tour de France

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2012

Journal of Sport & Tourism

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Despite the burgeoning literature on sports tourism research in the area is dominated by descriptive and anachronistic typologies. Consequently, some scholars have called for greater connectivities between sports tourism and related academic specialities. Accordingly, this paper uses a case-study of the 2011 Tour de France to suggest how sports tourism research can benefit from the sociological perspective of postmodernism. We support our argument by focusing on processes of embodied subjectivities and perceived authenticity among members of a commercially organised cycling and spectating trip.

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“…Thus, we find shared ceremonies of British, French, and German nationals at World War I battle sites. Gallipoli became a place of Australian-Turkish reconciliation (West 2008). But Reagan's 1985 visit, along with Helmut Kohl, to the Kolmeshöhe Cemetery-the World War II military cemetery near Bitburg where members of the Waffen-SS were also buried-was a controversial failure (Jensen 2007).…”

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Introduction: Contested Narratives of Storied Places—the Holy Lands

Feldman¹

2014

Religion and Society

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ABSTRACT:The articles in this special section on pilgrimage and the Holy Lands provide a wide range of perspectives on the practice, representation, and production of sacred space as expressions of knowledge and power. The experience of space of the pilgrim and the politically committed tourist is characterized by distance, impermanence, desire, contestation, and the entwinement of the material and the spiritual. The wealth of historical Christian and Western narratives/images of the Holy Land, the short duration of pilgrimage, the encounter with otherness, the entextualization of sites, and the semiotic nature of tourism all open a gap between the perceptions of pilgrims and those of 'natives' . Although the intertwining of symbolic condensation, legitimation, and power makes these Holy Land sites extremely volatile, many pilgrimages sidestep confrontation with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as inimical to the spirit of pilgrimage. A comparative view of the practices of contemporary Holy Land pilgrims demonstrates how communitas and conflict, openness and isolation are constantly being negotiated.n KEYWORDS: conflict, Holy Land, home, materiality, narratives, performances, pilgrimage, sacred spaces, tourism Edith Turner (2005: 7145-7148) provides the following definition of pilgrimage: "A religious believer in any culture may sometimes look beyond the local temple, church, or shrine, feel the call of some distant holy place renowned for miracles and the revivification of faith, and resolve to journey there. " According to this definition, the space of pilgrimage is a renowned place, a storied place. Like Mount Moriah of Isaac's sacrifice, it is "one of the mountains I shall tell thee of " (Genesis 22:2; King James translation), a distant space beyond a horizon that becomes a focus of vision and imagination, one that calls people to take to the road to journey there-a place that creates desire and, perhaps, transformation. The spiritual charge or 'magnetism' (Preston 1992) of the place, the accretion of new stories around the original ones, the transmission of those narratives in text, ritual, and iconography through generations and beyond borders-all this leads to the success of a site's career, but it also sows the seeds of conflict. The sheer number of individuals attending the site makes it a source of legitimation for believers with differing visions and a Introduction: Contested Narratives of Storied Places n 107 point of contestation between the conflicting claims of locals and visitors, laity and hierarchy, and more. Should one lapse into comfort, into taken-for-grantedness at such a place, some other will be there to remind one that claims and stories must be voiced (yet again), flags unfurled, and rituals displayed to reassert a sense of belonging to what cannot be fully possessed. Space and Place in Pilgrimage-Centers Out ThereThe study of space and place in religion has developed at a rapid pace since the spatial turn in anthropology in the 1990s, although studies of pilgrimage and the Holy Land-b...

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Enchanting Pasts: The Role of International Civil Religious Pilgrimage in Reimagining National Collective Memory

Cited by 40 publications

References 30 publications

Re-enchanting Nationalisms

Re-enchanting Nationalisms

Intimations of postmodernity in sports tourism at the Tour de France

Introduction: Contested Narratives of Storied Places—the Holy Lands

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