Pilgrims and travellers in search of the holy
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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.