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1 online resource (xxiii, 210 pages) : illustrations |
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Preface / John Eade -- Introduction. Pilgrimage and the search for meaning in late modernity / Nelia Hyndman-Rizk -- Part I : Pilgrimage : global, pagan and mobile -- 1. Becoming a global village : the impact of the John of God pilgrimage in Abadiânia / Cristina Rocha -- 2. The circle is open but unbroken : neo-pagan pilgrimage in the age of Globalisation / Kathryn Rountree -- 3. The pilgrim church in Vienna : mobile memories at the 1912 International Eucharistic Congress / Julie Thorpe -- Part II : Pilgrimage : war, resistance and the contested state -- 4. Journeys of resistance : Marian pilgrimages during the Bougainville crisis / Anna-Karina Hermkens -- 5. The Lebanese Brazilian checkpoint : reconstruction of identity post 2006 / Christine Guedri Giacalone -- 6. Sacred tourism and the state : paradoxes of cross-border religious patronage in Southern Thailand / Jovan Maud -- Part III : Pilgrimage : migration, diaspora and return -- 7. Pilgrimage to Pontos / Valerie Liddle -- 8. "Going to the Saint" : journeys to healing monastery in Greece / Amanda Ross Buckton -- 9. Return to Hadchit : the virtual, spiritual and temporal dimensions of pilgrimage to a Lebanese mountain village / Nelia Hyndman-Rizk |
| Summary |
This edited collection brings together a series of ethnographically grounded studies on sacred and secular pilgrimage from around the world including South America, the Pacific, SE Asia, Europe and the Mediterranean. In this volume pilgrimage is explored as a distinctive form of mobility in the age of globalisation, which emphasises inner transformation. Thus, pilgrimage is understood as a process which unifies physical and metaphysical mobility into a holistic project of self-realisation th .. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Pilgrims and pilgrimages -- History
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Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- History
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Anthropology.
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Spirituality & religious experience.
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Phenomenology & Existentialism.
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RELIGION -- Reference.
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Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
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Pilgrims and pilgrimages
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Hyndman-Rizk, Nelia.
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| ISBN |
1443839574 |
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9781443839570 |
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1299647081 |
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9781299647084 |
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