Pilgrimage has always had a tendency to followand sometimes createtrade routes. This volume explores how wider factors behind transnational and global mobility have impacted on pilgrimage activity across the world, and examines the ways in which pilgrimage relates to migration, diaspora, and political cooperation or conflict across nation-states. Furthermore, it brings together case studies that explore forms of mobility where pilgrimage is juxtaposed, complements, or is in intimate association with other forms of movement.

Simon Coleman is Chancellor Jackman Professor at the Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto. His publications includePilgrimage Past and Present in the World Religions (Harvard, 1995, with John Elsner),Pilgrim Voices: Authorship and Narrative in Christian Pilgrimage (Berghahn, 2003, edited with John Elsner) and Guiding the Pilgrim (Special Issue ofTourist Studies, 2015, edited with John Eade and Evgenia Mesaritou).

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Introduction: Pilgrimage and Political Economy: Introduction to a Research AgendaSimon Coleman and John Eade

Chapter 1.From the Indian Ganges to a Mauritian Lake: Hindu Pilgrimage in a Diasporic ContextMathieu Claveyrolas

Chapter 2. Transnational Courting through Shakyamuni Buddha: Japanese Pilgrimage and Geographical Dowries in North IndiaDavid Geary

Chapter 3. Sufism and Pilgrimage Market: A Political Economy of a Shrine in Southern PakistanRémy Delage

Chapter 4. Allah Always Hears the Prayers of a Traveller: Nationalized Shrines and Transnational Imaginaries in BukharaMaria Louw

Chapter 5.Pilgrimage Capital and Bosnian Croat Pilgrimage Places: Bosnian Croat Pilgrimages and Transnational Ties through Time and SpaceMario Kati

Chapter 6. Translating Catholic Pilgrimage Sites into Energy Grammar: Contested Spiritual Practices in Chartres and VézelayAnna Fedele

Chapter 7. A Pentecostal Shrine in Mexico: Ethnography of Migration and PilgrimagePatricia Fortuny Loret de Mola

Chapter 8. The Paths of Saint James in Brazil: Body, Spirituality and MarketCarlos Alberto Steil

Afterword: Going Beyond the Elusive Nature of PilgrimageDionigi Albera

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