Football Disasters and Pilgrimage

Commemoration through Religious and Non-Religious Ritual and Materiality

Bibliographic Data

ID3576895
AuthorsJohn Eade (0000-0002-7120-9448, University of Roehampton, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume15
Issue5
Pages518
Publication date2024-04-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel15050518
OpenAlexW4395040746
LanguageEN
References cited35

Although the relationship between religion and football has gained considerable interest during the last twenty years, scant attention has been paid to the relationship between pilgrimage and football. This paper seeks to advance the study of this relationship through an exploration of collective memory about football disasters that throws fresh light on central themes within pilgrimage studies-pilgrimage as both a journey to a sacred place and the performance of diverse rituals at such places. The paper explores, in particular, the ways in which three different tragedies involving English football clubs have been commemorated through journeys to and ritual performance at places seen as sacred to those involved in commemoration-football stadiums and urban spaces, and cathedrals and pilgrimage shrines in England, Germany and Italy. Through this analysis, we seek to show how the commemoration of football disaster is linked to pilgrimage as a process where people seek healing and reconciliation through the public performance of rituals that link the local to the global

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Football · Pilgrimage · Political science · Politics · Religious Tourism · Religious violence · Sociology · History · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious Tourism and Spaces · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society

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