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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

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[-]

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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.

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