Pilgrimage and political economy : translating the sacred /
Pilgrimage has always had a tendency to follow—and sometimes create—trade routes. This volume explores how wider factors behind transnational and global mobility have impacted on pilgrimage activity across the world, and examines the ways in which pilgrimage relates to migration, diaspora, and polit...
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2018
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Table of Contents:
- Pilgrimage and political economy : introduction to a research agenda / Simon Coleman and John Eade
- From the Indian Ganges to a Mauritian lake : Hindu pilgrimage in a 'diasporic' context / Mathieu Claveyrolas
- Transnational courting through Shakyamuni Buddha : Japanese pilgrimage and geographical dowries in North India / David Geary
- Sufism and pilgrimage market : a political economy of a shrine in southern Pakistan / Remy Delage
- Allah always hears the prayers of a traveller : nationalized shrines and transnational imaginaries in Bukhara / Maria Louw
- 'Pilgrimage capital' and Bosnian Croat pilgrimage places : Bosnian Croat pilgrimages and transnational ties through time and space / Mario Katic
- Translating Catholic pilgrimage sites into energy grammar : contested spiritual practices in Chartres and Vezelay / Anna Fedele
- A Pentecostal shrine in Mexico : ethnography of migration and pilgrimage / Patricia Fortuny Loret de Mola
- The paths of Saint James in Brazil : body, spirituality and market / Carlos Alberto Steil
- Afterword : going beyond the elusive nature of pilgrimage / Dionigi Albera