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Cities of pilgrimage / edited by Soheila Shahshahani.
Penn Museum Library BL619.P5 C58 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- 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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