Seductions of Pilgrimage

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.