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Language: en
Pages: 361
Pages: 361
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-08-29 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
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
Language: en
Pages: 343
Pages: 343
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-01-18 - Publisher: NYU Press
"This book offers a new theoretical framework for exploring contemporary pilgrimage, exploring examples ranging from the Hajj to the Camino, and arguing that pi
Language: en
Pages: 330
Pages: 330
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
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
Language: en
Pages: 308
Pages: 308
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-10 - Publisher: University of Arizona Press
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
Language: en
Pages: 300
Pages: 300
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
... "Twenty years of photographs by photographer and anthropologist Martin Gray. Accompanying each photograph is commentary that takes us into the history, myth