Not Tourists, but Pilgrims

Defining and Defending Modern Pilgrimage in a Late Imperial Russian Periodical

Bibliographic Data

ID3257530
AuthorsOlga Solovieva (0000-0002-1032-0740, Washington and Jefferson College, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume13
Issue8
Pages672
Publication date2022-07-22
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel13080672
OpenAlexW4287148636
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited19

For a historian of religion, Christian pilgrimage offers a perfect example of how religious ideals and practices are reimagined and transformed in response to the changing historical and cultural context. This dynamic displays itself in a particularly interesting way in modernity, with its advent of mass communication and transportation, as well as other economic and socio-political changes. This article discusses some of the resultant changes in the practice of and perspectives on pilgrimage in late-nineteenth-century Russia as seen through the lens of a popular religious journal of the era, Russian Pilgrim. As the first commercial mass publication devoted solely to this subject, Russian Pilgrim was highly instrumental not only in providing its readers with information about pilgrimage places, practices, and travel procedures, but also in shaping their perceptions of what constituted a good pilgrimage. The paper includes close reading of selected materials from the journal, as well as an accompanying analysis of the debates on the value and meaning of modern mass pilgrimage reflected in these examples

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Epistemology · Modern history · Modernity · Pilgrim · Pilgrimage · Political science · Politics · Sociology · History · Law · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Philosophy · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · Religious Tourism and Spaces

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