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Reframing Pilgrimage: Cultures in Motion (European Association of Social Anthropologists)

By Simon Coleman

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
0415303559, 9780415303552
LCC
BL619.P5 R44 2004
Open Library ID
OL22584047M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1279809 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
224\213
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

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

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