ABSTRACT
Our ethnographic research has convinced us that contemporary Christian travellers are drawing upon the resources of a rich ‘religious imaginary’ in order to engage in theological reasoning about the journeys they have made, the places they are visiting and the landscapes they encounter. This religious resource is generated through the traditions, teaching, worship and practice of particular religious communities. However, it also incorporates discourses circulating within the wider culture which deeply influence pilgrim narratives. As landscape has become an increasingly important cultural concept it has generated lively new resources for pilgrimage theology as we shall explore later in this chapter.
