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Pages: 361
Authors: Kama Maclean
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Today the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, India, is a major Hindu religious pilgrimage and the largest religious gathering in the world. In 2001, according to the gove
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Language: en
Pages: 343
Authors: Simon Coleman
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-01-18 - Publisher: NYU Press

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"This book offers a new theoretical framework for exploring contemporary pilgrimage, exploring examples ranging from the Hajj to the Camino, and arguing that pi
Pilgrims and Politics
Language: en
Pages: 330
Authors: Antón M. Pazos
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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The objective of this book is the analysis of the relationships between the phenomenon of pilgrimage and political power within Europe. It establishes a discuss
Pilgrimage and Healing
Language: en
Pages: 308
Authors: Jill Dubisch
Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-10 - Publisher: University of Arizona Press

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Bikers converge at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Thousands flock to a Nevada desert to burn a towering effigy. And the hopeless but hopeful
Sacred Earth
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Martin Gray
Categories: Photography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company

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... "Twenty years of photographs by photographer and anthropologist Martin Gray. Accompanying each photograph is commentary that takes us into the history, myth