The article presents a typological categorization of contemporary mega-events and their characteristics, in order to interpret the assemblages mobilized by sectors Catholic Church traditional devotional pilgrimages northern region Brazil. It uses ethnographic accounts Círio de Nazaré feast, Belém, Pará state, Brazil, considered largest procession West, analyze how promotion this event is organi...

Religious tourism, both everywhere in the world and here Bulgaria, is oldest type of tourism. The people past were extremely religious, so by undertaking pilgrimages, they hoped to be healed physically or mentally, purified, thus come closer God. Drawing a parallel with today’s practice religious tourism country, it should noted that becoming more profane alien true worship. spiritual material ...

In this text, I analyze official public narratives in Ukraine 2020 connected to the Hasidic pilgrimage Uman, best known and most popular destination of its kind Europe. The pandemic year brought restrictions mass gatherings, including pilgrimages, for first time since collapse Soviet Union. have differentiated two competing discourses - "pilgrimage as a source danger" proxy Ukraine's good reput...

Ancient Costa Ricans in the Arenal area exhibited extraordinary persistence in landscape use and social memory, in spite of repeated catastrophes caused by explosive volcanic eruptions. The Cañales village on the south shore of Lake Arenal was struck by two large explosive eruptions during the Arenal phase (500 b.c.–a.d. 600). Following ecological recovery, the village was reoccupied after each...