Study Programme
Course
Status of the Course
Year
ECTS Credits
Teacher
e-mail
consultation hours
Assistant
e-mail
consultation hours
Place of Teaching
Mode of Teaching
Teaching Workload
Lectures + Seminars +
Excercises
Assessment Criteria &
Mode of
Examination
Start date
Mid-Term, End-of-Term
Examinations
Final Examinations
Learning Outcomes
Ethnology and Anthropology (undergraduate and
graduate)
Pilgrimage and Sacred Landscapes
Elective
Semester
3
Assistant professor Jadran Kale
jkale@unizd.hr
consultation hours
Mario Katić, PhD
makatic@unizd.hr
consultation hours
125, New Campus
Lectures and seminars
1+1+0
Class attendance, Preparations for classes, Seminar essay and
Written exam
Summer semester End date
Term 1
Term 2
Term 1
Term 2
Summer semester
Term 3
Term 4
Term 3
Term 4
Understand the creation, significance and specifics of various
cultural phenomena, including ritual, religion, art, language and
others;
Recognize, analyze and interpret cultural specifics of the
Mediterranean and wider European society;
Use basic qualitative methods of research, particularly
ethnography;
Describe, analyze and compare various cultural phenomena;
Observe the cultural processes which shape human environments;
Recognize the interactive processes of culture and identity;
Appreciate cultural diversity and develop a critical stance towards
any form of cultural stereotyping;
Recognize and evaluate the potential of some aspects of culture
for presentation in contemporary tourism industry.
Review and explain professional and scientific literature;
Apply anthropological methods in carrying out independent
research;
Analyse culture, particularly its aspects of language, ethnicity,
religion, gender, ritual, art and others which symbolically express
cultural values;
Independently use contemporary communication technologies;
describe cultural phenomena while respecting the contexts which
determine their distinctiveness;
Define main characteristic of pilgrimage and sacred landscapes.
Explain interrelationship between pilgrimage, politics, tourism and
place-making.
Demonstrate knowledge about main pilgrimage and landscape
research.
Analyse a case study of pilgrimage or sacred landscape based on
ethnographic research.
Critically evaluate anthropological literature about pilgrimage.
Design independent research project.
Synthesize theoretical literature about some aspect of pilgrimage
or landscape research.
Enrolment
Requirements
Course Contents
Active English.
Humanities or Social Science background.
The course’s main agenda is to problematize the relationship
between pilgrimages and sacred landscapes being created by
those pilgrimages. After introductory definitions of pilgrimage and
landscapes in general, and introduction into the field of pilgrimage
research, the focus of the lectures will be on different
interrelationship of pilgrimage, journeys, movements at one side,
and landscapes, memories, identities, and popular culture, on the
other. The course looks into: Pilgrimage place as places of equality
but also conflict and contestation; Creating new sacred places and
landscapes in the context of popular culture and secular
pilgrimage; The interrelationship of pilgrimages, journeys and
tourism; The relationship between pilgrimage, politics and placemaking; Problematizes the changing landscapes i.e. the
intertwining of religious and secular processes; “Sharing the
sacred” in predominantly Mediterranean context; and
development of deathscapes in traditional culture but also postsocialist period in Eastern Europe.
In seminars the students will work on their essays based on their
personal experiences and research, contextualized within
theoretical literature of the course. They will be obligated to
present their essays and encourage the discussions.
Weekly lecture topics:
Historical context of pilgrimage;
Victor Turner and Communitas;
Pilgrimage and sacred landscapes as arenas for conflicts;
Re-defining pilgrimage;
Secular pilgrimage and creation of new sacred landscapes;
Pilgrimage and Tourism;
Pilgrimage, Militarism and Commemorations;
Sharing the Sacra, Antagonistic Tolerance and Pilgrimage;
Pilgrimage, Politics and Nationalism in Eastern Europe;
Required Reading
Pilgrimage, Landscapes and Architecture;
Bosnian Croats Natio-religious Landscapes;
Deathscapes.
Badone, Ellen and Sharon Roseman (2004) Intersecting Journeys:
The Anthropology of Pilgrimage and Tourism. University of Illinois
Press: Chicago.
Dallen, Timothy and Daniel Olsen (2006) Tourism and Religious
Journeys. In, Tourism, Religion and Spiritual Journeys. Routledge:
London and New York.
Eade, John and Michael Sallnow (2000) Introduction. In, Contesting
the Sacred: The Anthropology of Christian Pilgrimage. University of
Illinois Press.
Eade, John and Simon Coleman (2004) Introduction: Reframing
Pilgrimage. In, Reframing Pilgrimage: Cultures in Motion.
Routledge: London and New York.
Eade, John and Mario Katić (2014) Introduction: Crossing the
Borders. In, Pilgrimage, Politics and Place-making in Eastern
Europe. Ashgate: Farnham and Burlington.
Margry Jan, Peter (2008) Shrines and Pilgrimage in the Modern
World: New Itineraries into the Sacred. Amsterdam University
Press.
Morinis, Alan (1992) Introduction: The Territory of Anthropology
of Pilgrimage. In, Sacred Journeys: The Anthropology of Pilgrimage
Turner, Victor and Edith Turner (1978) Image and Pilgrimage in
Christian Culture: Anthropological Perspectives. Columbia
University Press: New York.
Barkan, Elazar and Karen Barkey (2015) Choreographies of Shared
Sacred Sites: Religion and Conflict Resolution. New York: Columbia
University Press.
Coleman, Simon and John Elsner (1995) Pilgrimage: Past and
Present in The World Religions. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press
Dionigi Albera and Maria Couroucli (2012) Sharing Sacred Spaces in
the Mediterranean: Christians, Muslims, and Jews at Shrines and
Sanctuaries. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Additional Reading
Dubisch, Jill (1995) In a Different Place: Pilgrimage, Gender, and
Politics at a Greek Island Shrine. Princeton University Press.
Feld, Steven and Keith Basso (1996) Senses of Place. School of
American Research Advanced Seminar Series.
Hayden, Robert (2002) Antagonistic Tolerance: Competitive
Sharing of Religious Sites in South Asia and the Balkans. Current
Anthropology 43 (2).
Katić, Mario (2013) Catholic Madonna in a Muslim Village: Sharing
the Sacra in a Bosnian Way. Quaderni di Studio Indo-Mediterranei
VI.
Katić, Mario, Tomislav Klarin and Mike McDonald (2014)
Pilgrimage and Sacred Places in Southeast Europe: History,
Religious Tourism and Contemporary Trends. Berlin – Wien –
London: Lit Verlag.
Low, Setha and Denise Lawrence Zuniga (2003) The Anthropology
of Space and Place. Blackwell Publishing.
Sheldrake, Phillip (2001) Spaces for the Sacred: Place, Memory and
Identity. London: SCM Press.
Internet Sources
Course Evaluation
Procedures
Conditions for
Obtaining Signatures
Semester survey
70% attendance
Mark Grading Scale
Final Grade Calculation
Comments
Class attendance 0,5 ECTS
Preparations for classes 0,2 ECTS
Seminar essay 1 ECTS
Written exam 1,3 ECTS