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Dynamics or Religion: Past and PresentXXI IAHR World Congress, Erfurt, Germany 2015*Panel Call for Papers**Military Pilgrimage: Practices and Discourses*Panel conveners: John Eade, Universities of Roehampton and TorontoMario Katić, University of ZadarThe anthropology of pilgrimage has emerged as a well recognised sub-fieldof Anthropology with a significant body of literature that has addressed awide range of pilgrimage phenomena. Recent research and publications havesought to move beyond debates concerning communitas and contestation (seeTurner and Turner 1978; Eade and Sallnow 1991; Morinis 1992) towardsexplorations of movement, gender, ethnicity, visualisation, secular andspiritual pilgrimage, political and economic processes, and therelationship between pilgrimage and tourism (Walter and Reader 1992;Coleman and Eade 2004; Badone and Roseman 2004; Hopgood 2005; Margry 2008;Albera and Couroucli 2012; Bowman 2012; Jansen and Notermans 2012; Reader2013; Fedele 2103; Eade and Katić 2014; etc).Nevertheless, some important gaps remain and one of them is militarypilgrimage. Although pilgrimage places have always been connected tonationalism, politics and military from the Middle Ages (Crusaders) tocontemporary practices (like Australian pilgrimage to Gallipoli or Westernto memorials from the First and Second World War), focus on this form ofpilgrimage has been neglected in pilgrimage research. At Lourdes, one ofEurope’s most visited Christian shrines - military pilgrimage has been along established feature and with the collapse of the Iron Curtain and theadvance of globalisation the international military pilgrimage to Lourdeshas grown significantly with delegations from Poland, Slovakia, Croatia,Ukraine, Canada and the USA as well as from W. Europe. Military pilgrimagesare also happening in these European and N. American countries, viz. thePolish military pilgrimages to JasnaGora and Lichen, Croatian militarypilgrimage to Marija Bistrica, etc.Through this panel we want to contribute to research on this stillneglected form of pilgrimage. Our goal is to gather scholars and casestudies from around the world in trying to access practices and discoursesconnected to Christian and non-Christian military pilgrimage in local andglobal contexts at national and trans-national levels. We want to observemilitary pilgrimage in synchronic and diachronic perspective and inrelationship to politics and nationalism, as well as to individual pilgrimsand/or different (secular and religious) agents connected with theestablishment and organisation of different military pilgrimages.Abstracts (up to 300-words in Word doc.), with contact details andaffiliation, should be sent to John Eade (j.eade@roehampton.ac.uk) andMario Katić (makatic@unizd.hr) by *September 7th 2014. *