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Title Shrines and pilgrimage in the modern world : new itineraries into the sacred / edited by Peter Jan Margry.

Imprint [Amsterdam] : Amsterdam University Press, ©2008.

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Description 1 online resource (362 pages) : illustrations, map
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Physical Medium polychrome. rdacc http://rdaregistry.info/termList/RDAColourContent/1003
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Series Moravian MUPO title
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-358) and index.
Note Print version record.
Contents Secular pilgimage : a contradiction in terms? / Peter Jan Margry -- I. The political realm. The anti-mafia movement as religion? : the pilgrimage to Falcone's tree / Deborah Puccio-Den -- "I'm not religious, but Tito is a god" : Tito, Kumrovec, and the new pilgrims / Marijana Belaj -- Patriotism and religion : pilgrimages to Soekarno's grave / Huub de Jonge -- II. The musical realm. Rock and roll pilgrims : reflections on ritual, religiosity, and race at Graceland / Erika Doss -- The pilgrimage to Jim Morrison's grave at Pčre Lachaise Cemetery : the social construction of sacred space / Peter Jan Margry -- The Apostle of Love : the cultus of Jimmy Zámbó in post-socialist Hungary / István Povedák -- III. The sports realm. Pre's rock : pilgrimage, ritual, and runners' traditions at the roadside shrine to Steve Prefontaine / Daniel Wojcik -- IV. The realm of life, spirituality and death. Going with the flow : contemporary pilgrimage in Glastonbury / Marion Bowman -- The pilgrimage to the "cancer forest" on the "Trees for Life Day" in Flevoland / Paul Post -- Sites of memory, sites of sorrow : an American veterans' motorcycle pilgrimage / Jill Dubisch.
Summary This book affirms, from an anthropological perspective, humans enduring need for pilgrimage, also in the modern world.
Language English.
Subject Pilgrims and pilgrimages.
Shrines.
Sanctuaires.
shrines (structures)
Humanities.
Religion and beliefs.
Religion: general.
Comparative religion.
Society and social sciences.
Sociology and anthropology.
History.
RELIGION -- Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Pilgrims and pilgrimages. (OCoLC)fst01064066
Shrines. (OCoLC)fst01117849
Indexed Term Multi-User.
Added Author Margry, P. J. (Peter Jan)
Other Form: Print version: Shrines and pilgrimage in the modern world. [Amsterdam] : Amsterdam University Press, ©2008 9789089640116 9089640118 (DLC) 2008464757 (OCoLC)225875926
ISBN 9789048502240 (electronic bk.)
9048502241 (electronic bk.)
9789089640116
9089640118
1281787876
9781281787873
9786611787875
6611787879
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DEBBG BV043107374
DEBBG BV044133521
DEBSZ 422039853
GBVCP 802789757
GBVCP 865732442
NZ1 13336093
NZ1 14936006
GBVCP 1003600573

 
    
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