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Pilgrimage : past and present in the world religions / Simon Coleman and John Elsner.

Coleman, Simon, 1963-; Elsner, John.
1995
BL619.P5 C65 1995 (Mapit)
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Title
Pilgrimage : past and present in the world religions / Simon Coleman and John Elsner.
Author
Coleman, Simon, 1963-
ISBN
9780674667662 (pbk.)
0674667662 (pbk.)
9780674667655
0674667654
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1995.
Language
English
Description
240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Call Number
BL619.P5 C65 1995
Dewey Decimal Classification
291.3/51
291.4/46
Summary
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Elsner, John.
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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.

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