Sacred journeys: the anthropology of pilgrimage
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 / Kar...
| Published in: | Contributions to the study of anthropology |
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| Contributors: | ; |
| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Westport, Conn
Greenwood Press
1992
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Contributions to the study of anthropology (7)
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| Volumes / Articles: | Show volumes/articles. |
| Series/Journal: | Contributions to the study of anthropology
7 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Religion
/ Pilgrimage
/ Comparison of cultures
/ Pilgrimage
/ Settlement
/ Conference
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| Further subjects: | B
Pilgrims and pilgrimages
Cross-cultural studies
Congresses
B Conference program |
| Parallel Edition: | Online version: Sacred journeys. - Westport, Conn : Greenwood Press, 1992 |
| Summary: | 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 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 |
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| Item Description: | Chiefly papers delivered at a conference held in May 1981 at the University of Pittsburgh |
| ISBN: | 0313278792 |