Catrien Notermans is an anthropologist and associate professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. She is coeditor (with Willy Jansen) of Moved by Mary: The Power of Pilgrimage in the Modern World (Routledge, 2009) and Gender, Nation and Religion in European Pilgrimage (Routledge, 2012).