Simon Coleman is an anthropologist and Chancellor Jackman Professor at the Department of Religion, University of Toronto, Canada. He has carried out research on Pentecostalism, pilgrimage, cathedrals, and religious infrastructures, and has worked in the UK, Sweden, and Nigeria. His most recent book is Powers of Pilgrimage: Religion in a World of Motion (2021).

Marion Bowman is based in Religious Studies at The Open University, UK. She has conducted research on vernacular and material religion, Glastonbury, Celtic spirituality, pilgrimage and Caminoisation in northern Europe, and has worked in Norway, Estonia, Hungary and Newfoundland. She has recently co-edited a special issue of NUMEN, Reframing Pilgrimage in Northern Europe (2020).