PILNAR: Pilgrimage Narratives

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PILNAR Pilgrimage Narratives Paul Post
(Tilburg University, NL)
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Project Title Acronym and Abstract Title
Pilgrimage Narratives Creating a Germ Corpus
for Studying the Profile of the Modern
Pilgrim Acronym PILNAR Target Start Date April
1. 2012 Target End Date April 2013 Type
Demonstrator Project or Resource Curation
Project Both Call Closed Call
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Some statistics
2009 145,877 pilgrims 2010 expectation
300.000? 272,496 2011 183,502 Top 7 Spain
Germany Italy US Canada Austria the
Netherlands Season April-October peak
August Age peak around 50 and 28 85,945 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 IV. Culture the arts art,
theatre, museum, history, heritage monuments...
..
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Sacred fields V. Leisure culture gt
re-creation nature, landscape, parks, events,
festivals, sport, tourism
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Sacred fields
II. healing
I. religion
III. memorial culture
V. leisure culture nature, sport, tourism
IV. culture art, history, museum, theatre,
heritage culture
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• Sacred fields
• analytical perspectives of interaction
• Tensions, contestations, discontinuity
• Ritual references, ritual transfer
• Overlap, continuity
• Cultural processes, appropriations
• Mapping out identities
• Success and failure

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Sacred fields mapping out identities of the
modern pilgrim
II. healing
I. religion
III. memorial culture
Success explained??
camino
V. leisure culture nature, sport, festivals,
tourism
IV. culture art, history, museum, theatre,
heritage culture
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• And trace cultural/societal processes
• Castells Network society
• Enormous tempo of changes
• Deterritorialisation
• Virtualisation and dematerialisation
• of info, identities, communities
• Horizontalisation
• Fragmentisation
• radical a-centric

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FLOW gt
II. healing
III. memorial culture
I. religion
IV. Art culture
V. leisure culture
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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.pelgrims
verhalen.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 gt blogs, twitter
• -changes in self presentation?
• - life narratives

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