Through extensive fieldwork in Eastern Poland (Subcarpathia) this study examines the relationships between memories of post-World War II resettlements, religious practices, and feeling belonging to places shrines. Two Greek Catholic sites considered are being revived both mentally physically through restored practices around them. In perspective those Orthodox believers expelled from region aft...

This article explores the ways in which newly founded and highly contested Christian confession of Greek Catholics or Uniates employed strategies mass mobilization to establish maintain their position within a confessional terrain. The Catholic clerics, above all monks Basilian order fostered an active policy acquiring, founding promoting Marian places grace create invigorate sense belonging am...

Abstract From reenactments to pilgrimages, extraordinary experiences engage consumers with frames and roles that govern their actions for the duration of experience. Exploring such roles, however, can make act returning everyday life more difficult, a process prior research leaves implicit. The present ethnography live action role-playing explains how return from this differs depending on consu...

Human stampedes caused by panic and overcrowding occur frequently as a result of abnormal events (e.g., a fire or explosion) produced in collective events (e.g., religious pilgrimages, music concerts and sportive events). These events provoke panic and when people are agglomerated they try to escape pushing each other without realizing that others are being crushed. Since crowds can consist of ...

Cultural groups respond differently to mental illness depending on the explanations of the cause, attitudes in the community toward mental illness and its treatment, and the social and community resources available to patients and their families. Our column last month explored these explanations and attitudes. This column focuses on family and community treatment of mental illness and the care ...

By fostering reverence, walking The Way can facilitate a critical tool in the promotion of what Pope Francis calls ecological conversion his 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’. Re-reading series personal phenomenological reflections she wrote during course her 2012 and 2017 pilgrimages along Camino Frances through lens philosopher Paul Woodruff’s theory author explores emotional sources reverence pilg...

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 b...