With an eye for questions around ‘religion’ and ‘politics’, Gied ten Berge investigates the relationship between the historical layered, religious pilgrimage phenomenon and a modern, socio-cultural phenomenon such as ‘responsible tourism’. The author concludes with an call for a contextual theology of pilgrimages to ‘the Land’. Gied ten Berge (1948) studied sociology in Leiden (NL) and theology in Tilburg (NL). He has worked for most of his life in the Christian peace-movement.