ISBN:
0313278792
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0313278792
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9780313278792
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9780313278792
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 325 Seiten
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Illustrationen, graph. Darst., Karten
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25 cm
Series Statement:
Contributions to the study of anthropology 7
Series Statement:
Contributions to the study of anthropology
Parallel Title:
Online version Sacred journeys
DDC:
291.4
Keywords:
Pilgrims and pilgrimages Cross-cultural studies
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Congresses
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Konferenzschrift
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Konferenzschrift
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Konferenzschrift
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Konferenzschrift
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Religion
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Wallfahrt
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Kulturvergleich
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Pilgerschaft
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Vergleich
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Konferenz
Abstract:
Pilgrimage and its influence on West African Islam / James Steel Thayer -- Specialists in miraculous action : some shrines in Shiraz / Anne H. Betteridge -- Sanctification overland : the creation of a Thai Buddhist pilgrimage center / James B. Pruess -- Mission to Waitangi : a Maori pilgrimage / Karen P. Sinclair -- Postscript : anthropology as pilgrimage, anthropologist as pilgrim / Colin Turnbull
Abstract:
Spiritual magnetism : an organizing principle for the study of pilgrimage / James J. Preston -- Pilgrimage and tourism : convergence and divergence / Erik Cohen -- The great Maharashtrian pilgrimage : Pandharpur and Alandi / John M. Stanley -- Velankanni calling : Hindu patterns of pilgramge at a Christian shrine / Paul Younger -- Persistent peregrination : from sun dance to Catholic pilgrimage among Canadian prairie Indians / Alan Morinis -- Pilgrimage and heresy : the transformation of faith at a shrine in Wisconsin / Peter W. Wood -- Pilgrimages in the Caribbean : a comparison of cases from Haiti and Trinidad / Stephen D. Glazier -- Pilgrim narratives of Jerusalem and the Holy Land : a study in ideological distortion / Glenn Bowman
Description / Table of Contents:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Note:
Chiefly papers delivered at a conference held in May 1981 at the University of Pittsburgh
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