Title Excavating Pilgrimage : Archaeological Approaches to Sacred Travel and Movement in the Ancient World

Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (306 pages) Series Routledge Studies in Pilgrimage, Religious Travel and Tourism Routledge studies in pilgrimage, religious travel, and tourism. Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction: Archaeologies of pilgrimage; 2 Inter-cultural pilgrimage, identity, and the Axial Age in the ancient Near East; 3 Collective mysteries and Greek pilgrimage: The cases of Eleusis, Thebes and Andania; 4 Of piety, gender and ritual space: An archaeological approach to women's sacred travel in Greece; 5 The pilgrim's passage into the sanctuary of the Great Gods, Samothrace 6 Pilgrimage and procession in the Panhellenic festivals: Some observations on the Hellenistic Leukophryena in Magnesia-on-the-Meander7 Palimpsest and virtual presence: A reading of space and dedications at the Amphiareion at Oropos in the Hellenistic period; 8 Roman healing pilgrimage north of the Alps; 9 Visiting the ancestors: Ritual movement in Rome's urban borderland; 10 The pilgrim and the arch: Paths and passageways at Qal'at Sem'an, Sinai, Abu Mena, and Tebessa; 11 Movement as sacred mimesis at Abu Mena and Qal'at Sem'an 12 The allure of the saint: Late antique pilgrimage to the monastery of St Shenoute13 Excavating Meriamlik: Sacred space and economy in late antique pilgrimage; 14 Pilgrimage and multi-religious worship: Palestinian Mamre in Late Antiquity; Responses; 15 Excavating pilgrimage; 16 Pilgrimage progress?; Index Notes Print version record Subject Pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Rome Pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Greece Material culture -- Religious aspects. Material culture -- Rome Material culture -- Greece RELIGION -- Reference. Material culture Material culture -- Religious aspects Pilgrims and pilgrimages Religion SUBJECT Rome -- Religion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96009771 Greece -- Religion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057127 Subject Greece Rome (Empire) Form Electronic book Author Friese, Wiebke Kristensen, Troels Myrup ISBN 9781351856256 1351856251

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