Redefining pilgrimage : new perspectives on historical and contemporary pilgrimages / edited by Antón M. Pazos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pazos, Antón M., editor.

Series:

Compostela international studies in pilgrimage history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pilgrims and pilgrimages.

Physical Description:

x, 188 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington : Ashgate, [2014]

Contents:

Conventional and unconventional pilgrimages: conceptualizing sacred travel in the twenty-first century / Ellen Badone

Old pilgrimages, new meanings; new pilgrimages, old forms: from the Ganges to Graceland / David M. Gitlitz

Pilgrimage and the American myth / George Greenia

Heaven on earth: political pilgrimages and the pursuit of meaning and self-transcendence / Paul Hollander

Israeli youth voyages to Holocaust Poland

through the prism of pilgrimage / Jackie Feldman

The pilgrimage to the Hill of Crosses: devotional practices and identities / Darius Liutikas, Alfonsas Motuzas

The saint and his cat: localization of religious charisma in contemporary Russian Orthodox pilgrimages / Jeanne Kormina

Walking to Mother Teresa's grave / Brian Kolodiejchuk

Reformulations of the pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela

Linda Kay Davidson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781409468233

1409468232

OCLC:

879662357