Pilgrim Stories

Frey, Nancy

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“…Over the past 30 years, the research on what goes on at destinations has been complemented by a focus on people travelling to and from those destinations (Coleman and Eade, 2004). In the European region, the popularity of the "camino"routes leading across France and northern Spain to Santiago de Compostelahas led to a variety of studies from different disciplines (Frey, 1998;S anchez y S anchez and Hesp, 2015;Roszak, 2019;Jørgensen et al, 2020). The camino's popularity has encouraged the development of pilgrimage routes elsewhere across Europe described as "caminoisation" and closely associated with heritage making or heritagisation (Bowman and Sepp, 2019;Bowman, 2020;Selberg and Mikaelsson, 2020).…”

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Mobility, space and agency: pilgrimage by humans and others

Eade

2023

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Purpose Pilgrimage brings humans and other-than-humans together through a dual process – movement across space and the transformation of space through the process of sacralisation. This paper aims to explore this dual process by outlining the development of qualitative research on contemporary pilgrimage where the dominant representational approach which focuses on human agency has been complemented by a relational perspective where statues, springs and rocks, for example, are seen as possessing their own agency that influences human action. Design/methodology/approach This paper describes the development of qualitative research on contemporary pilgrimage by bringing together both the representational and relational approach and drawing on the author’s experience of pilgrimage over many years and his reflections on that experience as a trained qualitative researcher. Findings This paper explores the ways in which the dominant representational approach in pilgrimage studies can be complemented by the relational approach by drawing on the author’s experience of pilgrimage in three different contexts Originality/value The paper is original by bringing together both the representational and relational perspectives, contextualising them through the author’s experience of different types of pilgrimage and linking pilgrimage to the wider issues of migration, space and agency.

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Section: Pilgrimage Routes and Travelling Pilgrimsmentioning

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Mobility, space and agency: pilgrimage by humans and others

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2023

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“…Pilgrimage defined as a "journey to a sacred place" is just one of the many conceptions of the term. Many pilgrims feel that they are "walking in other people's footsteps" without having their predecessors' confessional worldview (Bowman and Sepp 2019;Frey 1998). One of the most significant phenomena influencing the revival of the pilgrimages is the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, which has been assigned as a Cultural Route of the Council of Europe (in 1987) and designated as a UNESCO Cultural Itinerary (in 1998).…”

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“…Since the Camino de Santiago is open to all, it is seen as a powerful means of evangelizing by the Catholic Church. This is certainly happening in Spain, where a specific goal of the Catholic Church is to use the popularity of the Camino to evangelize and convert the youth (Frey 1998;Sepp 2014). In April 2013, the first international conference dedicated to new evangelization on the Camino de Santiago was held in Santiago de Compostela.…”

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The Pilgrimage Landscape in Contemporary Estonia: New Routes, Narratives, and Re-Christianization

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Remmel

2020

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This article is the first attempt at mapping the pilgrimage landscape in contemporary Estonia, reputedly one of the most secularized countries in Europe. Based on fieldwork on three case studies — the Estonian Society of the Friends of the Camino de Santiago, the Pirita-Vastseliina pilgrim trail, and the “Mobile Congregation” — we have identified three distinctive features that shape the Estonian pilgrimage scene. The processes of Caminoization and heritagization characterize pilgrimage on a European scale, while the phenomenon that we call “bridging” has a more local flavor. Bridging refers to using pilgrimage to create connections between the Church (of any Christian denomination) and “secular” people. Historically a Christian practice, pilgrimage has transformed into something much more ambiguous. Thus, people often perceive pilgrimage as religion-related but still inherently secular. As the relationships between institutionalized religion and the vernacular world of beliefs and practices are multivalent, there is evidence of an ongoing “re-Christianization” of pilgrimage.

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“…The Camino (or way) that he refers to is of course the well‐known Camino de Santiago, an internationally popular pilgrimage that regularly attracted over 300,000 people prior to the COVID‐19 outbreak (Mróz, 2021, p. 629). The Camino is a staple of pilgrimage studies, the backdrop to now classic academic writings about pilgrimage (and wider theory), stretching from the Turner and Turner (1995) though to Frey (1998) and beyond (Doi, 2011; Egan, 2010; González, 2013). What is important for our purposes here is to note both the scale of the ambition and the fact that the Santiago pilgrimage is indeed a remarkable, rapidly growing and ever‐transforming religious practice that has attracted the attention of both the religious and non‐religious, and been the subject of both academic and non‐academic writings.…”

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Transformed ecologies and transformational saints: Exploring new pilgrimage routes in North East England

Miles-Watson

2022

Australian J of Anthropology

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County Durham in the UK has witnessed dramatic social and environmental shifts over the past 50 years, yet Durham Cathedral has stood at the heart of the region, seemingly solid, unchanging and eternal. It is frequently narrated as a prestigious jewel (a national treasure) that is surrounded by a countryside (and people) that clearly bear the time-marked scars of the processes of industrialisation and deindustrialisation. In this paper, I explore a recent moment in time when a partnership between the Cathedral and the local secular authorities aimed to rapidly transform our understanding of this space by connecting Cathedral and county through the newly laid Northern Saints' Trails. These Trails were designed as both a response to rapid changes in the local ecology and a catalyst for further transformation. The processes of this formation were ultimately delayed by the outbreak of COVID-19, yet this external force allowed the Pilgrimage project to find new life as a powerful healing practice for those who dwell in Durham. Attention to this process of purposeful, regular pilgrimage directs our attention towards the entangled nature of the home anthropologist and their role in the co-construction of space, leading to a call for a new

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Pilgrim Stories

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Mobility, space and agency: pilgrimage by humans and others

Mobility, space and agency: pilgrimage by humans and others

The Pilgrimage Landscape in Contemporary Estonia: New Routes, Narratives, and Re-Christianization

Transformed ecologies and transformational saints: Exploring new pilgrimage routes in North East England

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