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Conventional and unconventional pilgrimages: conceptualizing sacred travel in the twenty-first century / Ellen Badone -- Old pilgrimages, new meanings; new pilgrimages, old forms: from the Ganges to Graceland / David M. Gitlitz -- Pilgrimage and the American myth / George Greenia -- Heaven on earth: political pilgrimages and the pursuit of meaning and self-transcendence / Paul Hollander -- Israeli youth voyages to Holocaust Poland -- through the prism of pilgrimage / Jackie Feldman -- The pilgrimage to the Hill of Crosses: devotional practices and identities / Darius Liutikas, Alfonsas Motuzas -- The saint and his cat: localization of religious charisma in contemporary Russian Orthodox pilgrimages / Jeanne Kormina -- Walking to Mother Teresa's grave / Brian Kolodiejchuk -- Reformulations of the pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela -- Linda Kay Davidson

The surprisingly large & varied number of pilgrimage centers in the late-20th-century US are organized into three groups (pilgrimages of organized religion, civil religion, & cultural religion) for comparative description. Descriptions are presented of Catholic, Mormon, & Hindu pilgrimages; the sites of Gettysburg (PA) & Mount Rushmore (SD), as examples of civil religion pilgrimage; & Graceland (TN) as a cultural religion pilgrimage center. Modernity, rather than displacing pilgrimages, has actually been responsible for globalizing them, a process that involves their appropriation by expert systems, the fostering of diverse & sometimes contending interpretations of their significance, & the actual production of new pilgrimage landscapes. Drawing on original fieldwork, published research, & resources on the World Wide Web, it is proposed that by placing pilgrimages in global perspective, both the roles played by immigrant groups in the formation of US pilgrimage landscapes & the contours of US participation in pilgrimages abroad can be more readily discerned. 42 References. Adapted from the source document.

This volume is an eclectic multidisciplinary collection of essays related to the interconnections between dark tourism and pilgrimage travel. It focuses on dark tourism sites as pilgrimage destinations, dark tourists as pilgrims, and pilgrimage as a form of dark tourism. Theories and histories of dark tourism and pilgrimage are covered, as well as aspects of the visitor experience, including tourists' motivations and emotional responses, and social aspects, among others. The book has 22 chapters and a subject index.

In late-twentieth-century America, there is a surprisingly large and varied number of pilgrimage centers. This article organizes them into three groups (pilgrimages of organized religion, civil religion, and cultural religion) for comparative description. It includes descriptions of Catholic, Mormon, and Hindu pilgrimages, as well as the sites of Gettysburg, Mount Rushmore, and Graceland as pilgrimage centers. Modernity, rather than displacing pilgrimages, has actually been responsible for globalizing them, a process that involves their appropriation by expert systems, the fostering of diverse and sometimes contending interpretations of their significance, and the actual production of new pilgrimage landscapes. Drawing upon original fieldwork, published research, and resources on the World Wide Web, the author proposes that by placing pilgrimages in global perspective, we are better able to discern both the roles played by immigrant groups in the formation of American pilgrimage landscapes and the contours of American participation in pilgrimages abroad, such as the hajj to Mecca.