Paper short abstract:

The poster present on select examples, using the cartographic method, the transformation of spiritual and material aspects of religious peregrination in the Czech Republic mainly in the 18th-21th centuries, based on archeological finds, printed and archival sources and field research.

Paper long abstract:

In European contries, the traditional expressions of popular piety always belonged among the basic subjects of anthropologic, ethnologic and ethnocartographic studies. The successful research of popular piety and religious art that started in the Czech Land at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries underwent a major transformation after the year 1948 due to political changes. In the environment where science was oriented toward Marxism and its premises were built on the single "scientific world view", popular religiosity, the research of religious peregrination became taboo in the Communist regime. Interest in this topic was not resurrected until after the year 1989. The poster will present research that has been conducted so far in the Czech Republic on popular piety that represents a rather complicated and hard-to-structure aspect of popular mentality and traditional culture that interlinks popular spiritual and material culture. Peregrination, a type of socio-religious behavior, represents a very specific researched expression of popular piety. Based on the state of research in the Czech Republic and thanks to archeological finds and printed and archival sources, we will present on select examples, using the cartographic method, the oldest expressions of spiritual and material aspects of religious peregrination (e.g. pilgrimage cults, the geographical radius of pilgrimages, devotionals - pilgrimage medals) and the contemporary transformations of the pilgrimage tradition studied through field research.