Pilgrimage has always had a tendency to follow-and sometimes create-trade 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.

John Eade is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Roehampton, and Research Fellow at the Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto. His publications include Contesting the Sacred: The Anthropology of Christian Pilgrimage (Routledge, 1991, edited with M. Sallnow) and Reframing Pilgrimage (Routledge, 2004, edited with Simon Coleman).

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

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

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

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

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

Chapter 5. 'Pilgrimage Capital' and Bosnian Croat Pilgrimage Places: Bosnian Croat Pilgrimages and Transnational Ties through Time and Space
Mario Katic

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

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

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

Afterword: Going Beyond the Elusive Nature of Pilgrimage
Dionigi Albera

Index