Reframing pilgrimage
Subtitle: cultures in motion
By: [edited by] Simon Coleman and John Eade.
Contributors: Coleman, Simon, 1963-; Eade, John, 1946-; European Association of Social Anthropologists.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Pilgrims and pilgrimages.
Description: Reframing Pilgrimage argues that sacred travel is just one of the twenty-first century's many forms of cultural mobility. The contributors consider the meanings of pilgrimage in Christian, Mormon, Hindu, Islamic and Sufi traditions, as well as in secular contexts, and they create a new theory of pilgrimage as a form of voluntary displacement. This voluntary displacement helps to constitute cultural meaning in a world constantly 'en route'. Pilgrimage, which works both on global economic and individual levels, is recognised as a highly creative and politically charged force intimately bound up in economic and cultural systems.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"European Association of Social Anthropologists."