New Pathways in Pilgrimage Studies: Global Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780367876593 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 216 str.

Dionigi Albera; John Eade

Opis

This volume expands the theoretical, disciplinary and geographical perspectives of pilgrimage studies by moving away from Europe and North America and focusing on areas of the world where non-Christian pilgrimages abound. Its chapters examine the practice of ziyarat in the Maghreb and South Asia, Hindu pilgrimage in India and different pi

Recenzje

'…this is a valuable collection of essays which brings to the fore important non-Anglophone scholarship that has all too often been neglected, opening up possibilities for future interlocution as well as the continuing development of a critical lexicon of concepts and terms' – Kathryn Barush in Material Religion

Spis treści

1. Pilgrimage studies in global perspective John Eade and Dionigi Albera

2. Pilgrimage in China Marcus Bingenheimer

3. The amazement of the ethnographer: Hindu pilgrimage beyond sacred and profane Mathieu Claveyrolas

4. Sufism, pilgrimage and saint worship in South Asia Michel Boivin

5. Religious pluralism and pilgrimage studies in West (Peninsular) Malaysia Yeoh Seng-Guan

6. Studying religious mobility: pilgrimage, shrine visits and religious tourism from the Maghreb to the Middle East Katia Boissevain

7. Pilgrimage studies in Oceania: betwixt and between national concerns, academic trends and local ontologies Anna-Karina Hermkens

8. South(ern) African journeys of reverence Shirley du Plooy

9. Transcending symbols: the religious landscape of pilgrimage studies in Mexico Alejandra Aguilar Ros

10. Studies of Catholicism and pilgrimage in Brazil: continuities and ruptures over the long-term Carlos Alberto Steil

11. Concluding chapter

O autorze

Dionigi Albera is a Director of Research in the CNRS and leads the Institute of Mediterranean, European and Comparative Ethnology at the University of Aix-Marseille, France.

John Eade is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Roehampton, UK, Research Fellow in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto, Canada, and co-founder of the Routledge Studies in Pilgrimage, Religious Travel and Tourism series.