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Pilgrimage : past and present in the world religions

Author: Simon Coleman; John Elsner
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1995.
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From the Great Panathenaea of ancient Greece to the hajj of today, people of all religions and cultures have made sacred journeys to confirm their faith and their part in a larger identity. This book is a fascinating guide through the vast and varied cultural territory such pilgrimages have covered across the ages. The first book to look at the phenomenon and experience of pilgrimage through the multiple lenses of  Read more...
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Coleman, Simon, 1963-
Pilgrimage.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1995
(OCoLC)605001750
Online version:
Coleman, Simon, 1963-
Pilgrimage.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1995
(OCoLC)607802759
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Simon Coleman; John Elsner
ISBN: 0674667654 9780674667655 0674667662 9780674667662
OCLC Number: 33035337
Description: 240 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Contents: Introduction: Landscapes surveyed --
Pity and identity: sacred travel in the classical world --Picture section I: Viewer and viewed: images and idols --
Exile and return: Jewish pilgrimage --
Picture section II: The sacred site: contestation and co-operation --
The center in the desert: Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca --
Picture section III: Images of the Orient --
The gospels embodied: Christian pilgrimage to the Holy Land --
Picture section IV: Containers of the sacred --
Geographies of sainthood: Christian pilgrimage from the Middle Ages to the present day --
Picture section V: Living saints --
Divinity diffused: pilgrimage in the Indian religions --
Picture section VI: Mapping the sacred --
Translating the sacred: patterns of pilgrimage in the Buddhist world --
Epilogue: Landscapes reviewed.
Responsibility: Simon Coleman and John Elsner.

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From the Great Panathenaea of ancient Greece to the hajj of today, people of all religions and cultures have made sacred journeys to confirm their faith and their part in a larger identity. This book is a fascinating guide through the vast and varied cultural territory such pilgrimages have covered across the ages. The first book to look at the phenomenon and experience of pilgrimage through the multiple lenses of history, religion, sociology, anthropology, and art history, this sumptuously illustrated volume explores the full richness and range of sacred travel as it maps the cultural imagination.

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