Redefining pilgrimage
Subtitle: new perspectives on historical and contemporary pilgrimages
By: edited by Antón M. Pazos
Series: Compostela international studies in pilgrimage history and culture
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Farnham Surrey, England; Burlington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781409468233; 9781409468240; 9781409468257
Subjects: Pilgrims and pilgrimages
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Conventional and unconventional pilgrimages: conceptualizing sacred travel in the twenty-first century / Ellen Badone; title: Old pilgrimages, new meanings; new pilgrimages, old forms: from the Ganges to Graceland / David M. Gitlitz; title: Pilgrimage and the American myth / George Greenia; title: Heaven on earth: political pilgrimages and the pursuit of meaning and self-transcendence / Paul Hollander; title: Israeli youth voyages to Holocaust Poland - through the prism of pilgrimage / Jackie Feldman; title: The pilgrimage to the Hill of Crosses: devotional practices and identities / Darius Liutikas, Alfonsas Motuzas; title: The saint and his cat: localization of religious charisma in contemporary Russian Orthodox pilgrimages / Jeanne Kormina; title: Walking to Mother Teresa's grave / Brian Kolodiejchuk; title: Reformulations of the pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela; title: Linda Kay Davidson.