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Redefining pilgrimage : new perspectives on historical and contemporary pilgrimages / edited by Antón M. Pazos.

Contributor(s): Pazos, Antón M [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Compostela international studies in pilgrimage history and culture: Publisher: Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington : Ashgate, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: x, 188 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781409468233 (hardcover : alk. paper); 1409468232 (hardcover : alk. paper)Subject(s): Pilgrims and pilgrimagesDDC classification: 203/.51 LOC classification: BL619.P5 | R43 2014Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Conventional and unconventional pilgrimages: conceptualizing sacred travel in the twenty-first century / Ellen Badone -- Old pilgrimages, new meanings; new pilgrimages, old forms: from the Ganges to Graceland / David M. Gitlitz -- Pilgrimage and the American myth / George Greenia -- Heaven on earth: political pilgrimages and the pursuit of meaning and self-transcendence / Paul Hollander -- Israeli youth voyages to Holocaust Poland: through the prism of pilgrimage / Jackie Feldman -- The pilgrimage to the Hill of Crosses: devotional practices and identities / Darius Liutikas, Alfonsas Motuzas -- The saint and his cat: localization of religious charisma in contemporary Russian Orthodox pilgrimages / Jeanne Kormina -- Walking to Mother Teresa's grave / Brian Kolodiejchuk -- Reformulations of the pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela / Linda Kay Davidson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Conventional and unconventional pilgrimages: conceptualizing sacred travel in the twenty-first century / Ellen Badone -- Old pilgrimages, new meanings; new pilgrimages, old forms: from the Ganges to Graceland / David M. Gitlitz -- Pilgrimage and the American myth / George Greenia -- Heaven on earth: political pilgrimages and the pursuit of meaning and self-transcendence / Paul Hollander -- Israeli youth voyages to Holocaust Poland: through the prism of pilgrimage / Jackie Feldman -- The pilgrimage to the Hill of Crosses: devotional practices and identities / Darius Liutikas, Alfonsas Motuzas -- The saint and his cat: localization of religious charisma in contemporary Russian Orthodox pilgrimages / Jeanne Kormina -- Walking to Mother Teresa's grave / Brian Kolodiejchuk -- Reformulations of the pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela / Linda Kay Davidson.

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