ABSTRACT
The Seductions of Pilgrimage explores the simultaneously attractive and repellent, beguiling and alluring forms of seduction in pilgrimage. It focuses on the varied discursive, imaginative, and practical mechanisms of seduction that draw individual pilgrims to a pilgrimage site; the objects, places, and paradigms that pilgrims leave behind as they embark on their hyper-meaningful travel experience; and the often unforeseen elements that lead pilgrims off their desired course. Presenting the first comprehensive study of the role of seduction on individual pilgrims in the study of pilgrimage and tourism, it will appeal to scholars of anthropology, cultural geography, tourism, heritage, and religious studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 2|28 pages
The Seductions of Guiding
Jewish-Israeli Tour Guides on the Christian Holy Land Pilgrimage
chapter 3|22 pages
“As if the Road There is Covered with Honey”
Inquiries into the Seductiveness of a Greek Orthodox Monastery in Arizona for Russian Orthodox Parish Pilgrims
chapter 4|24 pages
The Seductiveness of Saints
Interreligious Pilgrimage Sites in Hatay and the Ritual Transformations of Agency
chapter 7|24 pages
Seductions of Suffering
Stigmata, Salvation and Pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of St. Padre Pio in San Giovanni Rotondo
chapter 8|22 pages
The Seductions of the Way
The Return of the Pilgrim and The Road to Compostela as a Liminal Space
chapter 9|24 pages
“Up In God's Great Cathedral”
Evangelism, Astronauts, and the Seductiveness of Outer Space
