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Pilgrimage in the age of globalisation : constructions of the sacred and secular in late modernity /

This edited collection brings together a series of ethnographically grounded studies on sacred and secular pilgrimage from around the world including South America, the Pacific, SE Asia, Europe and the Mediterranean. In this volume pilgrimage is explored as a distinctive form of mobility in the age...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Hyndman-Rizk, Nelia
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:This edited collection brings together a series of ethnographically grounded studies on sacred and secular pilgrimage from around the world including South America, the Pacific, SE Asia, Europe and the Mediterranean. In this volume pilgrimage is explored as a distinctive form of mobility in the age of globalisation, which emphasises inner transformation. Thus, pilgrimage is understood as a process which unifies physical and metaphysical mobility into a holistic project of self-realisation th ...
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxiii, 210 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1443839574
9781443839570
1299647081
9781299647084