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Author:   Dionigi Albera (University of Aix-Marseille, France) ,  John Eade (Roehampton University, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138639270

ISBN 10:   1138639273
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   06 December 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Pilgrimage studies in global perspective John Eade and Dionigi Albera 2. Pilgrimage in China Marcus Bingenheimer 3. The amazement of the ethnographer: Hindu pilgrimage beyond sacred and profane Mathieu Claveyrolas 4. Sufism, pilgrimage and saint worship in South Asia Michel Boivin 5. Religious pluralism and pilgrimage studies in West (Peninsular) Malaysia Yeoh Seng-Guan 6. Studying religious mobility: pilgrimage, shrine visits and religious tourism from the Maghreb to the Middle East Katia Boissevain 7. Pilgrimage studies in Oceania: betwixt and between national concerns, academic trends and local ontologies Anna-Karina Hermkens 8. South(ern) African journeys of reverence Shirley du Plooy 9. Transcending symbols: the religious landscape of pilgrimage studies in Mexico Alejandra Aguilar Ros 10. Studies of Catholicism and pilgrimage in Brazil: continuities and ruptures over the long-term Carlos Alberto Steil 11. Concluding chapter

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'...this is a valuable collection of essays which brings to the fore important non-Anglophone scholarship that has all too often been neglected, opening up possibilities for future interlocution as well as the continuing development of a critical lexicon of concepts and terms' - Kathryn Barush in Material Religion

Author Information

Dionigi Albera is a Director of Research in the CNRS and leads the Institute of Mediterranean, European and Comparative Ethnology at the University of Aix-Marseille, France. John Eade is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Roehampton, UK, Research Fellow in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto, Canada, and co-founder of the Routledge Studies in Pilgrimage, Religious Travel and Tourism series.

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