Table of Contents

Contents - 6[-]On the Authors - 8[-]Secular Pilgrimage: A Contradiction in Terms?1 - 14[-]Research into change - 17[-]Communitas vs individuality - 21[-]Movement and travel vs sanctuary and locality - 24[-]Tourism and Pilgrimage - 29[-]The Secular and the Religious - 31[-]Ethnography and Analysis - 33[-]Notes - 45[-]I The Political Realm - 48[-]The Anti-Mafi a Movement as Religion?The Pilgrimage to Falcone's Tree - 50[-]The Tree Form - 53[-]The Pilgrimage as Bearing Witness - 57[-]Imago Christi - 62[-]'Martyrs of the Law' - 67[-]Conclusion - 69[-]Notes - 70[-]'I'm not religious, but Tito is a God':Tito, Kumrovec, and the New Pilgrims - 72[-]Kumrovec - 73[-]An Ordinary Man with an Extraordinary Life - 75[-]The Day of Youth and the Statue of Josip Broz inKumrovec - 80[-]New Perspectives on Tito and Kumrovec - 88[-]Notes - 93[-]Patriotism and Religion:Pilgrimages to Soekarno 's Grave - 96[-]Introduction1 - 96[-]Soekarno - 97[-]A Simple Grave - 101[-]A Mausoleum and Gradual Rehabilitation - 103[-]The Pilgrims - 108[-]Secular, Magical and Religious Goals - 113[-]Concluding remarks - 119[-]Notes - 121[-]II The Musical Realm - 122[-]Rock and Roll Pilgrims: Refl ections on Ritual,Religiosity, and Race at Graceland - 124[-]Elvis 's Image - 125[-]Saint Elvis - 130[-]Graceland as Pilgrimage Site - 133[-]Elvis Week - 137[-]All-White Elvis - 139[-]Notes - 142[-]The Pilgrimage to Jim Morrison 's Grave at P�reLachaise Cemetery:The Social Construction of Sacred Space - 144[-]Mythologizing - 145[-]Fan Scene vs Heritage - 148[-]Idol, Icon or Saint? - 153[-]The Espace Morrison - 156[-]The Religious Factor - 160[-]Conclusion - 170[-]Notes - 171[-]The Apostle of Love: The Cult of Jimmy Z�mb� inPost-Socialist Hungary - 174[-]The Tale of Jimmy Z�mb� - 175[-]Life and Death in the Tabloids - 181[-]'Secular' Pilgrimage - 182[-]Pilgrimage Motives - 186[-]Pilgrims at the Sacred Place - 193[-]Conclusion - 195[-]Notes - 197[-]III The Sports Realm - 200[-]Pre's Rock : Pilgrimage, Ritual, and Runners'Traditions at the Roadside Shrine for StevePrefontaine 1 - 202[-]Pre's Rock - 210[-]Roadside Memorials and Spontaneous Shrines - 215[-]Shrine, Pilgrimage Site, Spirituality, and Inspiration - 218[-]The Spirit of Steve Prefontaine : Intercession, Prayers,and Blessings - 224[-]Gifts and Votive Offerings - 229[-]Conclusion - 234[-]Notes - 235[-]IV The Realm of Life, Spirituality and Death - 240[-]Going with the Flow: Contemporary Pilgrimagein Glastonbury - 242[-]Introduction - 242[-]The Context - 243[-]Simultaneous Pilgrimage in Glastonbury - 248[-]Vernacular Christianity - 254[-]Avalon , King Arthur and the Goddess - 257[-]Multifaith Pilgrimage - 262[-]Virtual co-presence in Glastonbury - 264[-]Facing the Moment : the Solar Eclipse and MillenniumEve - 266[-]Individuals and Intermittent Co-presence - 268[-]Consensus and Communitas: Earth energies - 270[-]Conclusion - 275[-]Notes - 280[-]The Pilgrimage to the 'Cancer Forest' onthe 'Trees for Life Day' in Flevoland - 282[-]The Trees for Life Day - 282[-]Ritual Framework - 285[-]'Sudden Unjust Deaths' - 286[-]Fellow Sufferers and Incidental Ritual Communities - 287[-]Fundamental Ritual Forms - 288[-]Inclusive Confi guration - 289[-]Location-specifi c Shrine - 290[-]Created / invented and Practical - 291[-]Rites of Passage - 292[-]Feelings and Motives - 293[-]Conclusion: Pilgrimage as a Ritual Reference - 295[-]Sites of Memory, Sites of Sorrow:An American Veterans' Motorcycle Pilgrimage - 300[-]History and Purpose of the Run for the Wall - 301[-]A Note on Methodology - 304[-]The Run for the Wall as Pilgrimage - 305[-]Places of Ritual, Places of Power - 310[-]Ritual, Narrative, and Healing: the Wall - 314[-]The Vietnam Veterans Memorial as a Shrine - 317[-]Healing, Identity, and Memory - 319[-]Shrines as Memory, Shrines as

About the Author

Peter Jan Margry is a senior researcher of religious culture at the Meertens Institute in the Netherlands and vice-president of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore.

Reviews

This book will be sure to stoke our intellectual fire and heat up the discussion over the highly charged topic of secular pilgrimage. Stunning in its worldwide scope and brilliant in its interpretation, it sheds light as never before on connections between homages to Elvis at Graceland,the -mafia judge� Giovanni Falcone at a flower bed in the center of Palermo, and the late leader of the former Yugoslavia Tito on the Day of Youth in Croatia, among others. The editor has done a great service in laying out the profundity of -secular pilgrimage� as a concept and drawing provocative parallels among the examples.[-][-]Simon Bronner[-]Distinguished University Professor of American Studies and Folklore, American Studies Program, the Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg - The provocative, ethnographic essays on contemporary -secular� pilgrimage in this valuable collection highlight dynamic, independent, creative expressions of vernacular religion in Europe, the United States, and Asia, and contribute to the development of a greater understanding of pilgrimage as a vital, intrinsically human portal to the sacred.[-]Leonard Norman Primiano, Department of Religious Studies, Cabrini College, Radnor, Pennsylvania[-]