Introduction Chapter 1 Reconstructing Sacred Geographies: Narrating Routes and Landscapes Chapter 2 Vikings, Saints and Pilgrimage Chapter 3 Mapping The Pilgrimage Network Chapter 4 Encountering Pilgrims Chapter 5 Ocean Pilgrimage and Ocean Plastics: Coastal Activism and the Reopening of the Marine Pilgrim Route Chapter 6 Cathedral and Town: Movable Feasts and Adaptable Spaces Chapter 7 Reconstructing Rituls: Pilgrimage and Sainthood in Contemporary Norway Epilogue Works Cited Notes

Pilgrimage, Landscape, and Identity provides a welcome international perspective on pilgrimage in Norway, one of the few monographs on this topic published in English. Grau's circumambulation, combined with attention to international geopolitical and social issues, is commendable in its perspective on economic and ecological factors, as well as for including the voices of minorities in the discussions about the developments of pilgrimage networks.

"Pilgrimage, Landscape, and Identity provides a welcome international perspective on pilgrimage in Norway, one of the few monographs on this topic published in English. Grau's circumambulation, combined with attention to international geopolitical and social issues, is commendable in its perspective on economic and ecological factors, as well as for including the voices of minorities in the discussions about the developments of pilgrimage networks." -- Hannah Kristine Lunde, Folklore "In this impeccably researched and engagingly-written book, Marion Grau introduces readers to a Norwegian 'pilgrimage network' and its ritualizations of text, landscape, practices, and narratives. Grau brings an ecumenical perspective and a cross-disciplinary approach to bear on this rich study of reconstructed medieval pilgrimages, both at their inceptions and today as they continue to play a formative role in personal, national, and religious identity. Grau is an academic, pilgrim, and guide as she maps these paths for the reader in this important contribution to the ever-growing field of pilgrimage studies." -- Kathryn R. Barush, Associate Professor and Thomas E. Bertelsen Jr. Chair of Art History and Religion, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley / Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University "There has been a remarkable revival of pilgrimage shrines and routes in post-Reformation countries across Northern Europe. Marion Grau has made an impressive contribution to the growing, inter-disciplinary study of this revival. She guides us gently along the routes to the St. Olav shrine in Trondheim and sets this particular example within the wider context of a changing nation." -- John Eade, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Roehampton, London "Interweaving 'circumambulatory field work,' theological reflection, and historical analysis, Grau has produced a richly textured tapestry of various narratives and vividly present landscapes and bodies. This is an impressive exploration of important issues concerning migration, nationalism, sacred and secular rituals, and climate change within the context of a Norwegian pilgrimage." -- Sarah M. Pike, author of For the Wild: Ritual and Commitment in Radical Eco-Activism "It is indeed a fine and novel study of pilgrimage in Norway, with interesting nuances and rich source materials. The book is written in an engaging language free of theological jargon, and it is both thought-provoking and interesting. It's well worth the read." -- Peder AnkerGallatin, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture

Selling point: First major study on this pilgrimage network in English, based on 7 years of participant observation, historical and theological reconstructions Selling point: Traces the development of various routes and the particular ways pilgrims in and from Norway construct the pilgrimage and saint's day festival Selling point: Historic account of Viking conversions and the role St. Olav plays in the unification of Norway as a premodern nation

Marion Grau is Professor of Systematic Theology, Ecumenism and Missiology at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society in Oslo, Norway. Her teaching interests are in constructive theology and her current research projects include the redevelopment of pilgrimage and the reshaping of identity in Norway and a Theology of petroleum economies and climate change in the Northern hemisphere. She is the author of Refiguring Theological Hermeneutics: Hermes, Trickster, Fool, Rethinking Mission in the Postcolony: Salvation, Society, and Subversion, and Of Divine Economy: Refinancing Redemption.

Selling point: First major study on this pilgrimage network in English, based on 7 years of participant observation, historical and theological reconstructions Selling point: Traces the development of various routes and the particular ways pilgrims in and from Norway construct the pilgrimage and saint's day festival Selling point: Historic account of Viking conversions and the role St. Olav plays in the unification of Norway as a premodern nation