01666nas a2200145   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002260000800043100001600051245006200067300000800129490000700137520136200144022001401506       2019                            d  caug1 aSmita Yadav00aHeritage Tourism and Neoliberal Pilgrimages. Introduction  a1-60 v203 aSites of pilgrimage and heritage tourism are often sites of social inequality and volatility that are impaired by hostilities between historical, ethnic, and competing religious discourses of morality, personhood, and culture, as well as between imaginaries of nationalism and citizenship. Often these pilgrim sites are much older in national and global history than the actual sovereign nation-state in which they are located. Pertinent issues to do with finance-such as regimes of taxation, livelihoods, and the wealth of regional and national economies-underscore these sites of worship. The articles in this special issue engage with prolix travel arrangement, accommodation, and other aspects of heritage tourism in order to understand how intangible aspects of such tourism proceed. But they also relate back to when and how these modern infrastructures transformed the pilgrimage and explore what the emerging discourses and practices were that gave newer meanings to neoliberal pilgrimages. The different case studies presented in this issue analyze the impact of these journeys on the pilgrims  own subjectivities-especially with regard to the holy sites being situated in their imaginations of historical continuity and discontinuity and with regard to their transformative experiences of worship-using both modern and traditional infrastructures.  a1465-2609