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"Mark Clavier examines a series of paradoxes that lie at the heart of Christian faith: eternity and time, silence and words, and wonder and the commonplace. In an intellectual reflection on that overnight trek and other wilderness walks, he explores the oft-hidden connections between faith, society, and nature. Each reflection ranges widely through history, folklore, poetry, philosophy, and theology to consider what these paradoxes can teach us about God, ourselves, and our world. Drawing on the recent upsurge in interest in the personal experience of landscapes and memory, this book invites readers to walk with Clavier in the Appalachians, Norway, Iceland, the Alps, and around Britain as he discovers the ways in which Christianity is profoundly earthed. The Genesis command, What God has joined together, let no one separate, serves as a guide towards an ecological understanding of the Christian faith that joins heaven and earth in nuptial union. By weaving together nature-writing, memoir, social commentary, and theological reflection A Pilgrimage of Paradoxes uses a memorable mountain journey in the ancient landscape of Wales to draw readers into reflecting about what it means to belong"--

Introduction / Lieke Wijnia and James S. Bielo -- Nazareth in pewter : pilgrims' badges of Loreto, Walsingham and Wavre / Hanneke van Asperen -- "Blinded by their zeal" : guide books to the Holy Land / Jack Kugelmass -- Back to the garden : bringing visitors to American edens, 1885-1956 / Brook Wilensky-Lanford -- The Latter-day Saints, the Bible, and tourism / Daniel H. Olsen and George A. Pierce -- Looking for a miracle : tourism, Tanya and Theurgy at the grave of the 'late' Lubavitcher rebbe / Simon Dein -- Media pilgrimage : the stories that shape the modern Camino de Santiago / Suzanne van der Beek -- Cultural-religious routes and their tourism valorization : in the "footsteps of the Apostle Paul in Greece" / Polyxeni Moira -- Bible museums / Crispin Paine -- Rewriting the Bible : the visual culture of creation science / Larissa Carneiro -- Music, scripture and the sacred : negotiating the postsecular at a Dutch arts festival / Lieke Wijnia -- Building on the gospel : the Moravian settlement at Christiansfeld / Marie Vejrup Nielsen -- Afterword / James S. Bielo.

In this article, I identify the Christian "hajj" to Jerusalem as an important Ottoman sociocultural phenomenon. I argue that by the nineteenth century the Balkan Eastern Orthodox communities in the Ottoman empire had restructured and reinterpreted their Holy Land pilgrimages to mirror the Muslim hajj to Mecca. As a result, the ritual trip to Jerusalem was transformed into a mechanism for upward social mobility and communal empowerment. By exploring the structural and functional similarities between the Muslim and the Christian hajj, this article contributes to studies of Muslim-Christian interactions outside "the clash of civilizations" paradigm. It also reveals striking distinctions between the Balkan Christian hajjis and the Russian palomniki, calling into question the influential scholarly assumption of Eastern Orthodox practices' homogeneity, an assumption that stands largely uncontested in the field of Slavic studies.