Abstract

Michael A. Di Giovine lecturing to pilgrims at the shrine of St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina in San Giovanni Rotondo For the past decade, I have been conducting intensive ethnographic research on pilgrimage, heritage, and revitalization in the cult of Catholic stigmatic Padre Pio (1887-1968), known as Catholicism’s most popular saint. Elsewhere I’ve argued (2011) that tourism research can be undertaken as a “global ethnography” that moves between scales, temporalities and networks. As I do wh...

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