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OverviewIn an increasingly global world where convenient modes of travel have opened the door to international and intraregional tourism and brought together people from different religious and ethnic communities, religious journeying in India has become the site of evolving and often paradoxical forms of self-construction. Through ethnographic reflections, the contributors to this volume explore religious and nonreligious motivations for religious travel in India and show how pilgrimages, missionary travel, the exportation of cultural art forms, and leisure travel among coreligionists are transforming not only religious but also regional, national, transnational, and personal identities. The volume engages with central themes in South Asian studies such as gender, exile, and spirituality; a variety of religions, including Sikhism, Islam, Buddhism, and Christianity; and understudied regions and emerging places of pilgrimage such as Manipur and Maharashtra. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Andrea Marion Pinkney , John Whalen-BridgePublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438466026ISBN 10: 1438466021 Pages: 338 Publication Date: 02 January 2019 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: New Motivations for Religious Travel in India Andrea Marion Pinkney and John Whalen-Bridge Part I. Constructing Community Spaces 1. Making Sacred Islamic Space in Contemporary India Carla Bellamy 2. Remaking Thai Buddhism through International Pilgrimage to South Asia Joanna Cook 3. Augmenting Pilgrimages: A Religious Theme Park in Shegaon, India Kiran A. Shinde Part II. Pilgrimage as Paradox 4. Appropriating Ayodhya on “Valor Day”: Hindu Nationalism and Pilgrimage as Politics Dibyesh Anand 5. Bihar as Christian Anti-Pilgrimage Site: Missions, Evangelism, and Religious Geography Robbie Goh 6. Seeking the Self in a Land of Strangers: New Religiosity and the Spiritual Marketplace of Rishikesh Alex Norman 7. Proxy Pilgrimage: Seeing Tibet in Dharamsala, India John Whalen-Bridge Part III. Reversals and Revisions 8. The Power of the “Little Hajj”: Memory, Ritual, and Pilgrimage in South Indian Islam Afsar Mohammad 9. What Are Sikhs Doing at “Historical Gurdwaras” If They’re Not on Pilgrimage? Saints, Dust, and Memorial Presence at Sikh Religious Places Andrea Marion Pinkney 10. “Reverse Pilgrimage”: Performance, Manipuri Identity, and the RanganiketanCultural Arts Troupe Rodney Sebastian 11. Imagined Place: Missionary Women’s Journeys in Southern India Roberta Wollons Contributors IndexReviewsIt's rare to find such diverse accounts of religious travel collected in a single volume, where scholars' engagements with individual places of pilgrimage in India and with the journeys surrounding them are truly in conversation with one another. For readers, it makes for a deeply enlightening journey. It also raises an interesting question: Is the reality of India powerful enough that it absorbs divergent expressions of religious tourism, making of them a common fabric? Here, so unusually, readers have the materials to decide. - John Stratton Hawley, author of A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement In an increasingly global world where convenient modes of travel have opened the door to international and intraregional tourism and brought together people from different religious and ethnic communities, religious journeying in India has become the site of evolving and often paradoxical forms of self-construction. Through ethnographic reflections, the contributors to this volume explore religious and nonreligious motivations for religious travel in India and show how pilgrimages, missionary travel, the exportation of cultural art forms, and leisure travel among coreligionists are transforming not only religious but also regional, national, transnational, and personal identities. The volume engages with central themes in South Asian studies such as gender, exile, and spirituality; a variety of religions, including Sikhism, Islam, Buddhism, and Christianity; and understudied regions and emerging places of pilgrimage such as Manipur and Maharashtra. Author InformationAndrea Marion Pinkney is Associate Professor of South Asian Religions at McGill University. John Whalen-Bridge is Associate Professor of English at the National University of Singapore. He is the coeditor (with Gary Storhoff) of many books, including The Emergence of Buddhist American Literature; American Buddhism as a Way of Life; Writing as Enlightenment: Buddhist American Literature into the Twenty-first Century; and Buddhism and American Cinema, all published by SUNY Press. He is also the author of Tibet on Fire: Buddhism, Protest, and the Rhetoric of Self-Immolation. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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