International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Volume 7 Issue 1 Pilgrim Bodies: An Anatomy of Christian Article 7 and Post-Christian Intentional Movement 2019 Walking to be Some Body: Desire and Diaspora on the St. Olaf Way Matthew R. Anderson Concordia University, Montreal QC,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://arrow.tudublin.ie/ijrtp Part of the Tourism and Travel Commons Recommended Citation Anderson, Matthew R. (2019) "Walking to be Some Body: Desire and Diaspora on the St. Olaf Way," International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage: Vol. 7: Iss. 1, Article 7. doi:https://doi.org/10.21427/F8R7-DP56 Available at: https://arrow.tudublin.ie/ijrtp/vol7/iss1/7 Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License. © International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage ISSN : 2009-7379 Available at: http://arrow.dit.ie/ijrtp/ Volume 7(i) 2019 Walking to be Some Body: Desire and Diaspora on the St. Olaf Way[1] Matthew R. Anderson Concordia University, Montreal QC
[email protected] In ‘Walking to Be Some Body’ Matthew R. Anderson uses the example of North American Scandinavian-background pilgrims walking Norway’s St. Olaf Way to parse the yearning of contemporary diaspora pilgrims who walk repristinated routes along ancient paths toward real or imagined homelands. These travellers literally incarnate contemporary tensions between the religious and the non-religious, the journey and the destination, and between the rootlessness of modern global tourism and the rootedness longed for in community and patrimony.