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Jerusalem is a city with a singular nature. Home to three religions, it contains spiritual meaning for people the world over; it is at once a tourist destination and a location with a complex political reality. Tourism, therefore, is an integral part of Jerusalem's development and its political conflicts.The book traces tourism and pilgrimage to Jerusalem from the late Ottoman era, through the British Mandate, during the period of the divided city, and to the reunification of the city under Israeli rule. Throughout, the city's evolution is shown to be intertwined with its tourist industry, as

Paul-Gordon Chandler presents fresh thinking in the area of Christian-Muslim relations, showing how Christ_whom Islam reveres as a Prophet and Christianity worships as the divine Messiah_can close the gap between the two religions. He illustrates his perspective with examples from the life of Syrian novelist Mazhar Mallouhi, who seeks to bridge the chasm of misunderstanding between Muslims and Christians through his novels

As Roman Catholics gained confidence in twentieth-century Scotland, they revived pre-Reformation shrines and pilgrimages and created new shrines with transnational connections to the modern Catholic world. Three sites in this campaign were Carfin, a new pilgrimage center based on Lourdes; Whithorn, site of medieval pilgrimages to Saint Ninian; and Dunfermline, associated with the canonized Queen Margaret of Scotland. Each had different meanings for Scottish Catholicism. The landscapes of these shrines included proposed new buildings, completed buildings, including shrines and churches, and existing features, notably caves or grottoes and medieval ruins. Whether found, professionally designed, or made by the clergy and their congregations, these sites framed and ordered pilgrimage rituals and lent them meaning. Seeing common architectural, visual features across these pilgrimages, and drawing on new archival research, we suggest that the employment of recognizable visual genres was a key way of creating a consensus amongst the faithful. International symbols of saintly presence were remade for the local context, with intertwined religious and political intentions, giving tangible expression to a revived Catholicism in Scotland, and promoting a new vision of Scotland as a Catholic nation.

Commemorating the dead: military pilgrimage and battlefield tourism / John Eade and Mario Katic -- Military pilgrimage commemoration and reconciliation -- Healing social and physical bodies: Lourdes and military pilgrimage / John Eade -- Pilgrimage for Anglo-Japanese reconciliation: reinterpreting the past by British Second World War veterans / Kyoko Murakami -- KFOR soldiers as pilgrims in Kosovo: Black Madonna in Letnica / Biljana Sikimic -- "Maple leaf up": patriotic, historical, and spiritual aspects of Canadian Armed Forces participation in the Nijmegen March / Michael Peterson -- Military pilgrimages, battlefield tourism and contestation -- Military pilgrimage to Bobovac: a Bosnian "sacred place" / Mario Katic -- Military tourism as state-effect in the Sri Lankan civil war / Rohan Bastin and Premakumara de Silva -- Sanctified past. The pilgrimages of Polish re-enactors to World War II battlefields / Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska -- Afterword -- Sacred secular sites and their visitors / Robert M. Hayden

Pilgrimage destinations other than the Ka'aba in Mecca are a contested subject amongst Muslims. For the Moroccan 'poor', who are unable to perform the Meccan pilgrimage, a local pilgrimage known as the Hajj al-Miskin or the 'Pilgrimage of the Poor' is performed as an alternative spiritual journey. In this article, I discuss this pilgrimage at two sites in Morocco. Approaching Islam as a lived religion, I discuss how Moroccans navigate between religious considerations and the realities of everyday life. I argue that the Pilgrimage of the Poor plays a key role in the lives of the pilgrims at both the individual and community level. The debate about the Pilgrimage of the Poor reveals how different groups of Muslims negotiate their positions with respect to different interpretations of the global discursive tradition of Islam, applying these interpretations within their local context.

In the twenty-first century, the number of people traveling to religious sacred sites on pilgrimage has increased more than at any point in human history. This book highlights this new chapter in pilgrimage and trail development with essays by pilgrimage scholars and practitioners of pilgrimage and faith-based tourism working in several countries.