There are many different types of topics you could choose for your final project. You might choose:
A specific site of pilgrimage
A specific text about pilgrimage
A specific person who went on pilgrimage
A specific ritual related to pilgrimage
A specific incident about a pilgrimage site, person, or ritual
There is nothing wrong with elaborating on a site, text, person, ritual, or incident found in the class reading. Your imagination may be sparked by something mentioned in our class reading that you want to investigate further: that's absolutely fine.
Some examples:
Sites of pilgrimage:
Medina (or a particular place in Medina, such as the Mosque of the Prophet)
Lourdes
National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (Washington, D.C.)
Bodhgaya
Mount Wu-T'ai
Siripada (Adam's Peak--Sri Lanka)
You can also flip through the Pilgrimage book, and check the bibliography in the back.
Don't be afraid to think "outside the box" to sites that might not seem like "traditional" pilgrimage sites, but for which you might make an argument that they are a destination of "religiously motivated travel," such as:
Disneyland
Graceland
Vietnam Memorial Wall
Texts about Pilgrimage
In addition to any of the texts specifically about pilgrimage we have read in class:
The Book of Margery Kempe
Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
Texts collected in: Jerusalem Pilgrims Before the Crusades (unfortunately not available in Rivera: but available quickly through interlibrary loan) or Jerusalem Pilgrimage, 1099-1185
Theoderich, Guide to the Holy Land (12th century pilgrimage guide)
Benjamin of Tudela's 12th-century Itinerary (A Jewish traveler around the known world)
People on pilgrimage
individuals...
Malcolm X (sources beyond his Autobiography)
Richard Lion-Heart (British crusader)
Sir Richard Burton
or groups...
Mystic Jews in Galilee
Japanese Buddhists in Shikoku
Sufi Muslims in North Africa
Madonna
Pilgrimage rituals and customs
Hajj rituals in Mecca
Prayer at the Western ("Wailing") Wall
Bathing in the Ganges
Votive offerings
Reenactments
Artistic representation/veneration
Relics and relic-collection
Incidents/Events
1993 and 2002: Riots in Ayodhya (India)
1993: The Mahamastakabhishekha (Jain anointing of the statue of Gomateshvara in India)
2000: Ariel Sharon "tours" the Temple Mount
1095-1099: The First Crusade
Look through the syllabus and the readings and come up with a topic that interests you, and begin there. But start looking soon: remember that your project proposal is due in-class on February 15!