The Seductions of Pilgrimage Sacred Journeys Afar and Astray in the Western Religious Tradition Routledge Studies in Pilgrimage, Religious Travel and Tourism Series

Foreword, Jas’ Elsner; Introduction: pilgrimage and seduction in the Abrahamic tradition, Michael A. Di Giovine and David Picard; Purity as danger? Seduction and sexuality at Walsingham, Simon Coleman; The seductions of guiding: Jewish-Israeli tour guides on the Christian Holy Land pilgrimage, Jackie Feldman; ‘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, Julia Klimova; The seductiveness of saints: interreligious pilgrimage sites in Hatay and the ritual transformations of agency, Jens Kreinath; The seduction of the past in new age pilgrimage, Jill Dubisch; Seduction in the ‘Gypsy pilgrimage’ at Les-Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, Ellen Badone; Seductions of suffering: stigmata, salvation and pilgrimage to the sanctuary of St. Padre Pio in San Giovanni Rotondo, Michael A. Di Giovine; The seductions of the way: the return of the pilgrim and the road to Compostela as a liminal space, Eduardo Chemin; ‘Up In God’s great cathedral’: evangelism, astronauts, and the seductiveness of outer space, Deana L. Weibel; Index.

Michael A. Di Giovine is an anthropologist with major research interests in comparative religion, pilgrimage, tourism and heritage policy. He is Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at West Chester University, and an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Michael is the author of The Heritage-scape: UNESCO, World Heritage and Tourism, the co-editor of Tourism and the Power of Otherness: Seductions of Difference, also with David Picard, and Edible Identities: Food and Foodways as Cultural Heritage with Ronda Brulotte. He has published extensively on the practices and the ethics behind the heritage and tourism fields.

David Picard is an anthropologist working at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, with research interests in tourism, hospitality, sustainable development and winemaking. He has carried out research in the Western Indian Ocean (mainly La Réunion and Madagascar), Australia, Portugal and Argentina/Antarctica. His main publications include a single-authored book, Tourism, Magic and Modernity and five edited volumes, Festivals, Tourism and Social Change, The Framed World, Emotion in Motion, Couchsurfing Cosmopolitanisms, and Tourism and the Power of Otherness, also with Michael A. Di Giovine.