This edited collection brings together a series of ethnographically grounded studies on sacred and secular pilgrimage in the age of globalisation from around the world. Pilgrimage is explored as a distinctive form of mobility in late modernity, which emphasises inner transformation.

"Nelia Hyndman-Rizk engages thoughtfully and constructively with the `mobility turn' in social sciences and what light this can throw on pilgrimage's distinctiveness as a form of mobility in `late-modern' conditions. The chapters complement this approach through their explorations of the global and transnational flows of people, ideas and information and how those flows engage with local social, cultural/religious and political structures and processes. The volume also helps us to look beyond particular regions to the connections between regions around the world. Since most of the contributors have been trained in anthropology they engage productively in the analytical models which have shaped the anthropological study of pilgrimage and to which I have had the good fortune to contribute through my collaboration with Michael Sallnow and Simon Coleman. I am sure readers will find this volume not only informative but also intellectually stimulating. It makes a welcome contribution to our understanding of this multi-facetted, complex and global phenomenon."- John Eade, University of Roehampton/University College London

Dr Nelia Hyndman-Rizk is a trained anthropologist and lectures in research methods in the School of Business at the University of New South Wales, Canberra. Her research interests include the economic and social dimensions of migration, gender relations and human insecurity, with a particular focus on Lebanon and Australia. She has ongoing research projects examining social media and the role of women in the Arab Spring and migration and maternal mental health.