Ian Reader in the Religious Studies Project

Ian Reader

The Religious Studies Project usually publishes a podcast (interview) every week. Last month (feb 2015) they published an extensive interview with Ian Reader.
Expect a discussion on Pilgrimage in the marketplace (2013) and certainly on pilgrimage in the Japanese tradition.

Everywhere on the world can become a sacred place.
Entertainment is always part of pilgrimage, often even playful.
'If a pilgrim is half a tourist, a tourist is half a pilgrim'.
I don't believe in the sacred.
The neurotic girls of Lourdes.
You don't have to travel to visit 'the sacred'.
Why one road survives, and others disappear.
The traditional and the secular.

Listen or download part 1 of the interview here.
Listen or download part 2 of the interview here.
Recommended!

Pilgrimage in the Marketplace (2013)

Pilgrimage, a very short introduction (Exp. april 2015)

You can read the comments on this interview by Alex Norman here: Pilgrimage as Tension


Interesting other podcasts on the Religious Studies Project in the light of my blog theme are:

Alex Norman of Spiritual Tourism, april 2013. Spiritual benefit and transformation.
Comments on this interview by Michael Stausberg, specially related to spirituality and religion.

Kim Knott on Religion, Space and locality, sept 2012
Regarding her 2005 'The location of Religion: A spatial analysis'.

Main page for the Religious Studies Project is here.