Reframing Pilgrimage

<p><em>Reframing Pilgrimage</em> argues that sacred travel is just one of the twenty-first century's many forms of cultural mobility. The contributors consider the meanings of pilgrimage in Christian Mormon Hindu Islamic and Sufi traditions as well as in secular contexts and they create a new theory of pilgrimage as a form of voluntary displacement. This voluntary displacement helps to constitute cultural meaning in a world constantly 'en route'. Pilgrimage which works both on global economic and individual levels is recognised as a highly creative and politically charged force intimately bound up in economic and cultural systems</p>