Placelore Pilgrim Routes, Restoried Sites and Contested Spaces

Marion Bowman is professor of Vernacular Religion at Open University, UK. She has published and researched extensively on vernacular religion, contemporary spirituality, non-traditional pilgrimage, material religion and the town of Glastonbury.

Ülo Valk is Professor of Estonian and Comparative Folklore at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He is the editor of Numen: International Review for the History of Religions. His publications include The Black Gentleman: Manifestations of the Devil in Estonian Folk Religion and Storied and Supernatural Places: Studies in Spatial and Social Dimensions of Folklore and Sagas (co-edited with Daniel Sävborg).

Agita Misāne is a researcher at the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, University of Latvia. Her research interests, publications and teaching are associated with the history of religious diversity in Latvia, Latvian nationalism, sociology of religion and social theory.

Lina Būgiene, PhD, is a senior researcher at the Department of Folk Narrative, the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Vilnius, Lithuania. She studies folk narratives, folk-beliefs and life stories. Among her latest publications is The Storytelling Human: Lithuanian Folk Tradition Today (Academic Studies Press, 2020).

Dirk Johannsen is professor of the Cultural History of Popular Religion at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo, Norway. His research focuses on narrative cultures. Among his recent publications are the co-edited Brill volumes Narrative Cultures and the Aesthetics of Religion (2020) and Fictional Practice. Magic, Narration and the Power of Imagination (2021).