This course introduces students to the fundamentals of pilgrimage beginning with an exploration of the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. The ancient origins of this pilgrimage, and its transformation into a commercial and logistical marvel of the modern world foreground what pilgrimage means in the 21st century. The course explores tourism, sacred places, dark tourism, sport pilgrimage and virtual pilgrimage. Students are encouraged to consider their own pilgrimages and travels and to register the meaning and importance of these. Modern pilgrimage is explored through contrasting academic approaches of religious studies, tourism, sport, geography, and media studies.
Questions of pilgrimage extend to notions of a sociological division between the sacred and profane. How feasible is it to divide secular tourism and sacred pilgrimage in the modern world? Of further concern is how pilgrimage equips us to connect to community, ritualise place and time, and meet the ultimate challenges of life and death.
Poslední úprava: Chlup Radek, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (22.01.2020)
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of pilgrimage beginning with an exploration of the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. The ancient origins of this pilgrimage, and its transformation into a commercial and logistical marvel of the modern world foreground what pilgrimage means in the 21st century. The course explores tourism, sacred places, dark tourism, sport pilgrimage and virtual pilgrimage. Students are encouraged to consider their own pilgrimages and travels and to register the meaning and importance of these. Modern pilgrimage is explored through contrasting academic approaches of religious studies, tourism, sport, geography, and media studies.
Questions of pilgrimage extend to notions of a sociological division between the sacred and profane. How feasible is it to divide secular tourism and sacred pilgrimage in the modern world? Of further concern is how pilgrimage equips us to connect to community, ritualise place and time, and meet the ultimate challenges of life and death.
Poslední úprava: Chlup Radek, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (22.01.2020)
Cíl předmětu - angličtina
Equip students with a broad interdisciplinary understanding of pilgrimage in a variety of modern forms.
Instruct students in various methods to perform their own empirical research on pilgrimage.
Enable students to question and debate an array of alternative and contemporary spiritual practices connected to place.
Poslední úprava: Chlup Radek, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (22.01.2020)
Podmínky zakončení předmětu - angličtina
Midterm. Students will write and submit one mid-term essay (1000-1500 words) critiquing the contradiction of secular pilgrimage. The must explore relevant literature and argue their own position on what constitutes a modern pilgrimage.
Full Term. Students will perform their own short research project on a pilgrimage (2,500 – 3000 words). This will include either a recounting of their own physical, or virtual pilgrimages, or observational/interview analysis at a pilgrimage site. What counts as a pilgrimage site will be down to the student to justify.
Participation. Students will be called on to engage in discussion on readings and topics in weekly lectures.
Midterm Essay 30%
Full Term Project 40%
Participation 30%
Poslední úprava: Chlup Radek, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (22.01.2020)
Literatura - angličtina
Key Texts:
Margry, P. J. (2008). Shrines and Pilgrimage in the Modern World: New Itineraries into the Sacred (P. J. Margry Ed.). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Bianchi, R. (2004). Guests of God: Pilgrimage and Politics in the Islamic World. New York: Oxford University Press.
Sharpley, R., & Stone, P. R. (2009). The Darker Side of Travel: The Theory and Practice of Dark Tourism: Channel View Publications.
Further Reading:
Albera, D., & Eade, J. (2016). New Pathways in Pilgrimage Studies: Global Perspectives: Taylor & Francis.
Aukland, K. (2015). Retailing Religion: Guided Tours and Guide Narratives in Hindu Pilgrimage. Tourist Studies, 16(3), 237-257. doi:10.1177/1468797615618038
Bardella, C. (2016). Pilgrimages of the Plagued: Aids, Body and Society. Body & Society, 8(2), 79-105. doi:10.1177/1357034x02008002005
Black, J. (2010). The British and the Grand Tour: Routledge.
Bowen, D. I., & Bannon, S. (2018). Hurricane Katrina Goes Digital: Memory, Dark Tours, and Youtube Virtual Dark Tourism (pp. 205-224).
Brooker, W. (2016). Everywhere and Nowhere. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 10(4), 423-444. doi:10.1177/1367877907083078
Coleman, S. (2016). Do You Believe in Pilgrimage? Anthropological Theory, 2(3), 355-368. doi:10.1177/1463499602002003805
Collins-Kreiner, N. (2010). Researching Pilgrimage. Annals of Tourism Research, 37(2), 440-456. doi:10.1016/j.annals.2009.10.016
Collins-Kreiner, N. (2016). Dark Tourism as/Is Pilgrimage. Current Issues in Tourism, 19(12), 1185-1189. doi:10.1080/13683500.2015.1078299
Crone, P. (1987). Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Cusack, C. M., & Digance, J. (2009). The Melbourne Cup: Australian Identity and Secular Pilgrimage. Sport in Society, 12(7), 876-889. doi:10.1080/17430430903053109
Digance, J., & Toohey, K. (2011). Pilgrimage to Fallen Gods from Olympia: The Cult of Sport Celebrities. Australisn Religious Studies Review, 24, 342-360. doi:10.1558/arsr.v24i3.342
Foley, M., & Lennon, J. J. (1996). Jfk and Dark Tourism: A Fascination with Assassination. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 2(4), 198-211. doi:10.1080/13527259608722175
Gammon, S. (2004). Secular Pilgrimage and Sport Tourism. In B. Richie & D. Adair (Eds.), Sport Tourism: Interrelationships, Impacts and Issues (pp. 30-45). Clevedon: Channel View Publications.
Gammon, S. (2004). Secular Pilgrimage and Sport Tourism. In B. Richie & D. Adair (Eds.), Sport Tourism: Interrelationships, Impacts and Issues (pp. 30-45). Clevedon: Channel View Publications.
Geertz, C. (1968). Islam Observed: Religious Development in Morocco and Indonesia. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
Gladstone, D. L. (2013). From Pilgrimage to Package Tour: Travel and Tourism in the Third World. London: Routledge.
Goatcher, J., & Brunsden, V. (2011). Chernobyl and the Sublime Tourist. Tourist Studies, 11(2), 115-137. doi:10.1177/1468797611424956
Greenia, George D. (2018) "What is Pilgrimage?," International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage: Vol. 6: Iss. 2, Article 3.Available at: https://arrow.dit.ie/ijrtp/vol6/iss2/3
MacWilliams, M. W. (2002). Virtual Pilgrimages on the Internet. Religion, 32(4), 315-335. doi:10.1006/reli.2002.0408
Morales, H. (2014). Pilgrimage to Dollywood: A Country Music Road Trip through Tennessee: University of Chicago Press.
Morales, H. (2014). Pilgrimage to Dollywood: A Country Music Road Trip through Tennessee: University of Chicago Press.
Nahin, P. J. (2014). Holy Sci-Fi! Where Science Fiction and Religion Intersect. New York: Springer.
O'Connor, P. (2014). Hong Kong Muslims on Hajj: Rhythms of the Pilgrimage 2.0 and Experiences of Spirituality among Twenty-First Century Global Cities. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 34(4), 315-329. doi:10.1080/13602004.2014.939557
O'Connor, P. (2017). Handrails, Steps and Curbs: Sacred Places and Secular Pilgrimage in Skateboarding. Sport in Society, 21(11), 1651-1668. doi:10.1080/17430437.2017.1390567
Parker, A., & Watson, N. J. (2014). Researching Religion, Disability, and Sport: Reflections and Possibilities. Journal of Disability & Religion, 18(2), 192-208. doi:10.1080/23312521.2014.898399
Parker, A., & Watson, N. J. (2014). Researching Religion, Disability, and Sport: Reflections and Possibilities. Journal of Disability & Religion, 18(2), 192-208. doi:10.1080/23312521.2014.898399
Potts, T. J. (2012). 'Dark Tourism' and the 'Kitschification' of 9/11. Tourist Studies, 12(3), 232-249. doi:10.1177/1468797612461083
Qurashi, J. (2017). Commodification of Islamic Religious Tourism: From Spiritual to Touristic Experience. International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage, 5(1). doi:arrow.dit.ie/ijrtp/
Reader, I. (2013). Pilgrimage in the Marketplace: Taylor & Francis.
Stausberg, M. (2014). Religion and Spirituality in Tourism. In A. A. Lew , C. M. Hall, & A. M. Williams (Eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Tourism. London: Blackwell.
Stausberg, M., & Engler, S. (2013). The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Religion. London: Taylor & Francis.
Taylor, R. M. (2011). Holy Movement and Holy Place: Christian Pilgrimage and the Hajj. Dialog, 50(3), 262-270. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6385.2011.00626.x
Turner, V. (1977). The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Urry, J., & Larsen, J. (2011). The Tourist Gaze 3.0. London: Sage.
Vertinsky, P., & Bale, J. (2004). Sites of Sport: Space, Place, Experience. London: Routledge.
Williams, A. M. (2013). Surfing Therapeutic Landscapes: Exploring Cyberpilgrimage. Culture and Religion, 14(1), 78-93. doi:10.1080/14755610.2012.756407
Wynn, J. R. (2010). City Tour Guides: Urban Alchemists at Work. City & Community, 9(2), 145-164. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6040.2010.01322.x
Yeoh, S. G. (2009). For/against Hybridity: Religious Entrepreneurships in a Roman Catholic Pilgrimage Shrine in Malaysia. Asian Journal of Social Science, 37, 7-28.
Poslední úprava: Chlup Radek, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (22.01.2020)
Sylabus - angličtina
Week 1: Introduction: Pilgrimage to Mecca Old and New;
