Ebook: Local identities and transnational cults within Europe

Introduction : local identity and transnational cults / Fiorella Giacalone -- Continuity from local cult to "accepted" ritual / Gianfranco Spitilli -- Developing pilgrimage itineraries : the way of St. Francis in Umbria as case in point / Paola de Salvo -- Pilgrimage, religious tourism and heritage in Calabria / Alfonsina Bellio -- Fighting for the saint : ritual rivalries in traditional pilgrimages / Laurent Fournier -- Cinese migrations and pilgrimages around Prato (Italy) and Wenzhou (China) / Daniele Parbuono -- Globalizing romani culture : the pilgrimage to the sea in Les-Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (France) / Gaëlla Loiseau -- The cult of Senor de los Milagros of Peruvians in Italy / Riccardo Cruzzolin -- Cultural diversity in a local French pilgrimage / Etienne Guillaume -- Mixing sport and religion in the landes area of France / Mathilde Lamothe -- An ethnology of the foreign traveller to the Shrine of St Nicholas of Bari, Italy / André Julliard -- Healing tourists with religion : Saint Rita's cult in Poland / Inga Kuzma -- A transnational cult : St. Rita of Cascia / Fiorella Giacalone -- Saint Rita of Cascia : an evolving devotion in Dublin's inner city / Tony Kiely -- Conclusion / Kevin Griffin and Fiorella Giacalone  Read more...