Military pilgrimage and battlefield tourism : commemorating the dead / edited by John Eade and Mario Katić.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eade, John, 1946- editor.

Katić, Mario, editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in pilgrimage, religious travel, and tourism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Battlefields--Conservation and restoration--Social aspects.

Battlefields.

Military parks--Social aspects.

Military parks.

Veterans--Travel.

Veterans.

Memorialization.

War and society.

Pilgrims and pilgrimages.

Heritage tourism--Social aspects.

Heritage tourism.

Travel.

Social aspects.

Battlefields--Conservation and restoration.

Physical Description:

xi, 164 page ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Contents:

1. Commemorating the dead: military pilgrimage and battlefield tourism / John Eade and Mario Katić

Part 1. Military pilgrimage commemoration and reconciliation

2. Healing social and physical bodies: Lourdes and military pilgrimage / John Eade

3. Pilgrimage for Anglo-Japanese reconciliation: reinterpreting the past by British Second World War veterans / Kyoko Murakami

4. KFOR soldiers as pilgrims in Kosovo: Black Madonna in Letnica / Biljana Sikimić

5. "Maple leaf up": patriotic, historical, and spiritual aspects of Canadian Armed Forces participation in the Nijmegen March / Michael Peterson

Part 2. Military pilgrimages, battlefield tourism and contestation

6. Military pilgrimage to Bobovac: a Bosnian "sacred place" / Mario Katić

7. Military tourism as state-effect in the Sri Lankan civil war / Rohan Bastin and Premakumara de Silva

8. Sanctified past: the pilgrimages of Polish re-enactors to World War II battlefields / Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska

Part 3. Afterword

9. Sacred secular sites and their visitors / Robert M. Hayden.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472483621

1472483626

OCLC:

994220353