Peregrinus Cracoviensis

Peregrinus Cracoviensis is the only research journal in Poland, and one of only a few in the world, dedicated to the geography of religion and especially to the issue of pilgrimages associated with all religions on a global, national, regional and local scale. Professor Antoni Jackowski has been the editor of the journal since its inception in 1995.

Professor Jackowski outlined his vision for the journal in Issue No. 1 (1995, pgs. 11-15). The journal is interdisciplinary in nature and its authors work at Polish and foreign research institutions that serve a variety of research areas associated with pilgrimages and religion in general. Its authors include geographers, historians, art historians, architects, ethnologists, sociologists, psychologists, theologians, literature historians and researchers associated with religious issues.

Most issues of the journal cover a variety of themes. Several issues were dedicated to selected sanctuaries and specific research problems. This included the sanctuaries of Kalwaria Zebrzydowska (Issue No. 2, 1995), Jasna Góra (Issue No. 3, 1996), Leżajsk (Issue No. 7, 1998) and Kraków-Łagiewniki (Issues No. 9 and No. 11, 2000). Most of the dedicated issues of the journal were the first to cover the above sanctuaries as pilgrimage centers. A novelty in the research literature was the introduction of foreign language issues on the geography of pilgrimages (Issue No. 10, 2000) and sacred geography (Issue No. 13, 2002). Issues dedicated to the pilgrimages of Pope John Paul II were quite popular with readers (Issue No. 5, 1997; Issue No. 20, 2009).

Issue No. 22 (2011) covered the history of the research work of the Institute of Geography and Spatial Management at Jagiellonian University in the field of the geography of religion (A. Jackowski, I. Sołjan, pgs. 77-116). Selected themes were worked on by L. Przybylska (L. Przybylska, 2009, Problems in the geography of religion in mountain areas in „Peregrinus Cracoviensis" [in:] A. Jackowski, F. Mróz, I. Hodorowicz (ed.), Religious tourism in mountain areas, Nowy Targ, pgs. 515-527).