Blog

• Crafting Ethnographic Research between Birmingham and Jerusalem - on contemporary Jewish pilgrimage itineraries, kosher tourism, and Israel’s pilgrimage tourism
• The Poetics and Politics of Tranquility: Sonic Warfare at the Western Wall - on the conceptual ambiguity surrounding contemporary Jewish pilgrimage and pilgrimage practice
• What’s in a name? Pondering Pilgrimage, Shalosh Regalim, Aliyah La’Regel,  Tzalyanut and ‘Foot’ as a Time Unit - Women of the Wall and egalitarian prayer, contestation and discord at Judaism’s holiest site
• Enjoy the Wonders of Hajj in Birmingham (Gabriele Shenar  & Shadia Taha) - Hajj re-enactment and community mobilisation, Birmingham Muslims stage the first ever Hajj exhibition in Birmingham