![]() ![]() Book Reviews / Buchrezensionen: Mikhail Seleznev, William R.G.Historical, Literary and Theological Readings from the Colloquium Ioanneum 2019 in Eisenach, WUNT 463, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2021, 386 S., ISBN: 978-3-1610006-7 Koester (eds.), Signs und Discourses in John 5 and 6. The analysis of pilgrimages points to new forms of blending of music and ritual, outside established institutional frameworks, as well as to changing notions of pilgrimage, movement, religious practice and piety. Music is used as a barrier and immaterial border to the ritual space, while in its interior it is better suited for the emotional control and the proper management of pilgrims. The focus is on the relationship between music, ritual, the sacred space of the pilgrimage and the public space. This paper offers an ethnographic description of a pilgrimage. ![]() Apart from the pilgrimages to well-known destinations (Jerusalem, Rome, etc.) organized by the Romanian Patriarchy’s Pilgrimage Bureau, a separate category is the improvised, hybrid pilgrimages, both religious and touristic, organized by individuals using hired minibuses. More than 20 years after the fall of the Communist regime, we are witnessing the unprecedented development of religious pilgrimage in Romania, a country where, according to the latest census, 84% of the population self-identifies as Orthodox Christian.
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