Approaching Pilgrimage

This volume seeks to explore pilgrimage studies as a distinctive sub-field of research, and to define its key methodological approaches and problems

Autorentext

Mario Kati is Associate Professor at the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology at the University of Zadar.

John Eade is Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Roehampton and Visiting Professor at Toronto University.

Inhalt

1 Approaching Pilgrimage: Introduction

Mario Kati and John Eade

Part I Time and Pilgrimage

2 The Method of Participant Observation, Communication and Changing Pilgrimage Practices

John Eade

3 Twists, Turns and Changing directions: reflections on long-term studies on a Japanese pilgrimage path

Ian Reader

Part II Positionality and Experiencing Pilgrimage

4 Displacing religion in Greek Cypriot Pilgrimages to the Turkish-occupied Monastery of Apostolos Andreas in Cyprus

Evgenia Mesaritou

5 Walking the Sutra: A Semiotic Theory of Pilgrimage

Tatsuma Padoan

Part III Multi-Site and Multi-Role Ethnography and Pilgrimage

6 Researching the Baptism Sites along the Jordan River - A Multi-sited Ethnography of Adjacent Places

Lior Chen

7 Multi-sited and multi-role research of Bosnian Croat pilgrimages

Mario Kati

Part IV Methodological Techniques and Tactics

8 Epistemological and ethical challenges of gathering and interpreting personal prayers from the archives

Mirela Hrovatin

9 The Visual Anthropology of Pilgrimages: Exploring the Making of Films and Photographs

Manoël Pénicaud

10 The Ethnography of Hasidic Pilgrimage in the Digital Age

Gabi Abramac

11 Studying Mecca elsewhere. Exploring the meanings of the hajj for Muslims in Morocco and the Netherlands

Kholoud Al-Ajarma and Marjo Buitelaar

12 Concluding Thoughts

Simon Coleman