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PILNAR: Pilgrimage Narratives Paul Post (Tilburg University, NL)

PILNAR: Pilgrimage Narratives Paul Post (Tilburg University, NL). 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

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PILNAR: Pilgrimage Narratives Paul Post (Tilburg University, NL)

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  1. PILNAR: Pilgrimage Narratives Paul Post (Tilburg University, NL)

  2. 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

  3. 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 6

  4. 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 7

  5. Status Quaestionis • Emerging ritual • Contexts, appropriations? • The profile of the modern pilgrim? • The perspective of ‘Fields of the Sacred” 8

  6. Sacred fields I Religious field ‘the religious sacred’ collective, institutional, traditional liturgy church building as ritual podium 9

  7. 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 10

  8. 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 11

  9. Sacred fields IV. ‘Culture’: the arts art, theatre, museum, history, heritage monuments..... 12

  10. Sacred fields V. Leisure culture > ‘re-creation’ nature, landscape, parks, events, festivals, sport, tourism 13

  11. Sacred fields: II. healing I. religion III. memorial culture V. leisure culture nature, sport, tourism IV. ‘culture’: art, history, museum, theatre, heritage culture 15

  12. Sacred fields • analytical perspectives of interaction: • Tensions, contestations, discontinuity • Ritual references, ritual transfer • Overlap, continuity • Cultural processes, appropriations • Mapping out identities • Success and failure 16

  13. 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 18

  14. 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

  15. ‘FLOW’ > II. healing III. memorial culture I. religion IV. Art & culture V. leisure culture 20

  16. 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 21

  17. 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 22

  18. 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! 23

  19. 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! 24

  20. Short outline of the project • Perspectives b. Culture studies • -shifts in accounts > blogs, twitter • -changes in self presentation? • - life narratives 25

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