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Project Title & Acronym and AbstractTitle: Pilgrimage Narratives: Creating a Germ Corpus for Studying the Profile of the Modern PilgrimAcronym: PILNAR
Target Start Date: April 1. 2012Target End Date: April 2013Type: Demonstrator Project or Resource Curation Project: BothCall: Closed Call
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Some statistics
2009: 145,877 pilgrims2010: expectation: 300.000?
272,4962011: 183,502Top 7: Spain Germany
Italy USCanadaAustriathe Netherlands
Season: April-October peak: AugustAge: peak around 50 and 2885,945: men 59,932: women
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Some statistics
Bicycle: 24,892
Most Camino Francés
Motives: hardly serious research
‘religious’: 62,188‘religious and other’ (sic): 70,303‘non-religious’: 13,386
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Status Quaestionis
Emerging ritual
Contexts, appropriations?The profile of the modern pilgrim?
The perspective of ‘Fields of the Sacred”
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Sacred fields
I Religious field
‘the religious sacred’
collective, institutional, traditional
liturgy
church building as ritual podium
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Sacred fields
II. Healing field
very dominant
“To find salvation and healing....”
exorcism, prophylactic, apotropaic, salvation
banning evil, bringing salvation
baptism, marriage, death rites
pilgrimage, devotions, praise & worship
healing services
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Sacred fields
III. Memory/ remembrance culture
very dominant: death/d rituals, memorials
Holocaust WWII
Great War WWI
Cf. now dynamics in ritual performances in memorial culture
Death rites
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Sacred fields
V. Leisure culture > ‘re-creation’
nature, landscape, parks, events, festivals,
sport, tourism
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Sacred fields:
I. religionIII. memorial culture
IV. ‘culture’: art, history,museum, theatre, heritage culture
II. healing
V. leisure culture
nature, sport, tourism
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Sacred fields
analytical perspectives of interaction:
1. Tensions, contestations, discontinuity
2. Ritual references, ritual transfer
3. Overlap, continuity
4. Cultural processes, appropriations
5. Mapping out identities
6. Success and failure
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Sacred fields: mapping out identities of the modern pilgrim
I. religionIII. memorial culture
IV. ‘culture’: art, history,museum, theatre, heritage culture
II. healing
camino Success explained??
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And: trace cultural/societal processesCastells: Network society
Enormous tempo of changesDeterritorialisationVirtualisation and dematerialisation
of info, identities, communitiesHorizontalisationFragmentisation
radical a-centric
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Short outline of the project
Research perspective: religious & ritual dynamics
Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela as casus
‘the modern pilgrim’
Inductive approach: performances, ritual main entrance
Ritual narratives
Pilgrimage narratives unique source
Heuristic instrument: sacred fields
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Short outline of the project
The germ corpus TSH + MI + CLARIN.nl
Dutch narratives by Santiago pilgrims after 2000
Sources:
-De Jacobsstaf 1986ss
-De Pelgrim
-Ultreia
-accounts and blogs via website Genootschap
-www.pelgrimsverhalen.nl
-call 2012
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Short outline of the project
The germ corpus
Dutch narratives by Santiago pilgrims after 2000
accessible database, corresponding to long-term preservation
analysis on two levels:
a. metadata extraction techniques
b. content search engine [word clouds]
here: the instrument of fields of the sacred!
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Short outline of the project
Perspectives a. Ritual, religious, pilgrimage studies
-international
-historical
-types of pilgrimage
-places
-travel accounts in general
and last but not least
-religious comparative:
Islam!
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Short outline of the project
Perspectives b. Culture studies
-shifts in accounts > blogs, twitter
-changes in self presentation?
- life narratives