This book explores cathedrals, past and present, as spaces for religious but also wider cultural practices. It traces major continuities and shifts in the location of cathedrals within religious, civic, urban, and economic landscapes of pre- and post-Reformation Christianity.

Simon Coleman is an anthropologist and Chancellor Jackman Professor at the Department of Religion, University of Toronto, Canada. He has carried out research on Pentecostalism, pilgrimage, cathedrals, and religious infrastructures, and has worked in the UK, Sweden, and Nigeria. His most recent book is Powers of Pilgrimage: Religion in a World of Motion (2021).

Marion Bowman is based in Religious Studies at The Open University, UK. She has conducted research on vernacular and material religion, Glastonbury, Celtic spirituality, pilgrimage and Caminoisation in northern Europe, and has worked in Norway, Estonia, Hungary and Newfoundland. She has recently co-edited a special issue of NUMEN, Reframing Pilgrimage in Northern Europe (2020).

1. Introduction - Religion in cathedrals: pilgrimage, heritage, adjacency, and the politics of replication in Northern Europe 2. Replication or rivalry? The 'Becketization' of pilgrimage in English Cathedrals 3. More English than the English, more Roman than Rome? Historical signifiers and cultural memory at Westminster Cathedral 4. Caminoisation and Cathedrals: replication, the heritagisation of religion, and the spiritualisation of heritage 5. Nidaros Cathedral: a recreated pilgrim church 6. On praying in an old country: ritual, replication, heritage, and powers of adjacency in English cathedrals