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Cities of pilgrimage / edited by Soheila Shahshahani.

Penn Museum Library BL619.P5 C58 2009
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Shahshahānī, Suhaylā.
International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences.
George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
Series:
IUAES-series ; v. 4.
IUAES-series ; vol. 4
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Pilgrims and pilgrimages.
Anthropology of religion.
Urban anthropology.
Physical Description:
211 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Place of Publication:
Berlin : Lit Verlag, 2009.
Contents:
Table of illustrations
Introduction and cities of pilgrimage in Iran / Soheila Shahshahani
Reframing pilgrimage : contesting the sacred in a globalising world / John Eade
Iconic cities : a hypercity perspective on pilgrimage sites / Peter J.M. Nas and Rivke Jaffe
Ceremonies and pilgrimage days of Armenian churches in Jolfa of Isfahan / Lina Melkomian
Hope and enthusiasm through shrines : introduction to two famous shrines in the ancient region of Sistan / Masumeh Dahmardeh
Pilgrimage to the cemeteries of Chor Bakr (Bukhara) and Shahi Zinda (Samarkand) / Olima Nabieva
Cairo's City of the Dead : a site of ancient and contemporary pilgrimage / Anna Tozzi di Marco
Taj Mahal : a symbolic site for pilgrimage / Hossein Soltanzadeh
Santiago de Compostela : pilgrimage with(out) boundaries / Cathelijne de Busser
Mariazell : "Holy Mother Mary, pray for us sinners" : Catholic pilgrimage in Austria / Danila Mayer
Night pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Divine Love in Rome / Tiziana Ciavardini
The city of Ray and the Holy Shrine of Shah/Hazrat Abdol Azim : history of the sacred and secular in Iran through the dialect of space / Fakhri Haghani
Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia) : a central Asian city of pilgrimage / Jorg Janzen and Thomas Taraschewski
Towards ensuring sustainable pilgrimage tourism / Janet Blake
List of authors.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
ISBN:
9783825816186
3825816184
OCLC:
432409429
Publisher Number:
99942311161

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