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Reframing Pilgrimage Cultures in Motion
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Routledge
224 Pages
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Routledge
224 Pages
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Routledge
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Reframing Pilgrimage argues that sacred travel is just one of the twenty-first century's many forms of cultural mobility. The contributors consider the meanings of pilgrimage in Christian, Mormon, Hindu, Islamic and Sufi traditions, as well as in secular contexts, and they create a new theory of pilgrimage as a form of voluntary displacement. This voluntary displacement helps to constitute... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction, Simon Coleman, John Eade; Chapter 2 ‘Being there’, Hildi Mitchell; Chapter 3 From England's Nazareth to Sweden's Jerusalem, Simon Coleman; Chapter 4 Going and not going to Porokhane, Eva Evers Rosander; Chapter 5 Embedded motion, Bente Nikolaisen; Chapter 6 ‘Heartland of America’, Jill Dubisch; Chapter 7 Coming home to the Motherland, Katharina Schramm; Chapter 8 Route metaphors of ‘roots-tourism’ in the Scottish Highland diaspora, Paul Basu; Bibliography Index;
Biography
Simon Coleman is a Reader in Anthropology at the University of Durham., John Eade is Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Surrey Roehampton.
'The coverage is broad, stretching far beyond previous concepts of pilgrimage as a religious or "sacred" event ...' - Anthropological Forum 15
