Madonna of the Reef in Perast and the Fašinada Custom: Relational and Representational Perspectives on a Maritime Pilgrimage

This article is about the Fašinada custom. The refers to transporting of stones by boat from coast a small island named Madonna Reef in Perast, Montenegro. custom both commemorates finding miraculous painting on reef sea, and it furthers island’s construction piling that reef. I consider issues representation relationality linked this site. These two aspects constantly intermingle, one cannot be understood without other. In first part article, draw more political economy perspective human intentionality material results social relations. describe explain complex background pilgrimage, different practices her saint, transformations Perast general maritime pilgrimages particular have undergone over time, then, multivocality contemporary community. second half relational dwelling perspectives co-option Reef, how nature has affected doing so, “nonhuman agency” as main reasons why transcended its religious context become space for interreligious encounters.