Redefining Pilgrimage

New Perspectives on Historical and Contemporary Pilgrimages
Herausgeber: Pazos, Antón M

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Produktbeschreibung

Exploring what does and what does not constitute pilgrimage, Redefining Pilgrimage draws together a wide variety of disciplines including politics, anthropology, history, religion and sociology. Leading contributors offer a broad range of case studies from a wide geographical area, exploring new ways of approaching pilgrimage beyond the classical religious model. Re-thinking the global phenomenon of pilgrimages in the 21st century, this book offers new perspectives to redefine pilgrimage.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781409468233
• ISBN-10: 1409468232
• Artikelnr.: 45377763

Autorenporträt

Antón M. Pazos is Vice Director of the Instituto de Estudios Gallegos Padre Sarmiento (Spanish National Research Council, CSIC) in Santiago de Compostela and President of the Commission Internationale d'Histoire et d'ÿtudes du Christianisme (CIHEC).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Antón M. Pazos 1 Conventional and Unconventional Pilgrimages:
Conceptualizing Sacred Travel in the Twenty-First Century Ellen Badone 2
Old Pilgrimages, New Meanings; New Pilgrimages, Old Forms: From the Ganges
to Graceland David M. Gitlitz 3 Pilgrimage and the American Myth George
Greenia 4 Heaven on Earth: Political Pilgrimages and the Pursuit of Meaning
and Self-Transcendence Paul Hollander 5 Israeli Youth Voyages to Holocaust
Poland: Through the Prism of Pilgrimage Jackie Feldman 6 The Pilgrimage to
the Hill of Crosses: Devotional Practices and Identities Darius Liutikas
and Alfonsas Motuzas 7 The Saint and His Cat: Localization of Religious
Charisma in Contemporary Russian Orthodox Pilgrimages Jeanne Kormina 8
Walking to Mother Teresa's Grave Brian Kolodiejchuk, MC 9 Reformulations of
the Pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela Linda Kay Davidson