Pilgrims and travellers in search of the holy

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Gothóni, René
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Peter Lang, c2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • Pilgrimage : three theoretical Interpretations / René Gothóni
  • Pilgrimage and the blessings of place-making : reflections on and beyond the anthropology of pilgrimage / Simon Coleman
  • In search of learning and holiness : Scandinavians going abroad from the Middle Ages to the present / Jakob Christensson
  • In the sphere of the holy : pilgrimage to a contemporary Greek convent / Mari-Johanna Rahkala
  • St. Petersburg Datsan : the northernmost Buddhist temple in Europe / Alexandre I. Andreyev
  • Pilgrimage as business in traditional India / Klaus Karttunen
  • Pouring water on Śiva : the case of Tarakeswar pilgrims / Rikka Uuksulainen
  • The way is the goal : Buddhist circulatory pilgrimage in Japan with special reference to selected artefacts / Michael Pye
  • Traditional Tibetan pilgrimage and the eight holy sites of Rebgong / Wuqi Chenaktsang
  • A dead man's pilgrimage : the legend of the Wutun people in Amdo / Juha A. Janhunen
  • Tourism, pilgrimage, and the fluidity of material culture in Labrang/Xiahe / Juha Komppa
  • Tibetan Buddhist nuns : Damcho Pema's prostrating pilgrimage to Lhasa / Lhundrub Dorji
  • Some remarks on understanding the motives of Tibetan nuns / Mitra Hirkinen.