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Explores how religious travel in India is transforming religious identities and self-constructions.

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Author:   Andrea Marion Pinkney ,  John Whalen-Bridge
Publisher:   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:  

9781438466033

ISBN 10:   143846603
Pages:   338
Publication Date:   01 September 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List 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 Index  

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It'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

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Andrea Marion Pinkney is Associate Professor of South Asian Religions at McGill University. Andrea Marion Pinkney is Associate Professor of South Asian Religions at McGill University.

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