ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book focuses on the sheer diversity of contemporary mobile practices that are organised around visiting valued sites and moving along cherished pathways. These modern pilgrimages, including those organised around the religious voyages that emerged in earlier times but persist, vary widely in the object of their quest, the forms of mobility undertaken, the distance covered and the time allotted. The book focuses on some of the distinctive temporalities and spatialities that shape such processes. Pilgrimages are part of the broader expansion of myriad forms of travel, cultural practices and tourist destinations that characterise contemporary mobility on a global scale. The book highlights the multiple temporalities that shape the sacrality and significance of sites and the experience of travelling to them. Pilgrimage journeys have a temporal shape within which successive experiences and cultural practices flow that may alternately be purposive, social, self-absorbed.
