Research Catalog

Title

Sacred places, sacred spaces : the geography of pilgrimages / edited by Robert H. Stoddard and Alan Morinis.

Publication

Baton Rouge : Geoscience Publications, Dept. of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, ©1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Stoddard, Robert H.
• Morinis, E. Alan

Description

xi, 323 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Geoscience and man ; vol. 34

Uniform Title

Geoscience and man v. 34.

Subject

• Pilgrims and pilgrimages > Comparative studies
• Religion and geography
• Religion et géographie
• Pilgrims and pilgrimages
• Wallfahrt
• Geografie
• Kulturvergleich
• Aufsatzsammlung

Genre/Form

Comparative studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Prologue / Miles E. Richardson -- Introduction: Geographic contribution to studies of pilgrimage / Robert H. Stoddard and Alan Morinis -- Sect. 1. Role of pilgrimages. Geography and pilgrimage: a review / Surinder M. Bhardwaj -- Pilgrimage, travel and existential quest / Anne Osterrieth -- Defining and classifying pilgrimages / Robert H. Stoddard -- Sect. 2. Pilgrimages in the Christian tradition. Regional variations in Europe's Roman Catholic pilgrimage traditions / Mary Lee Nolan and Sidney Nolan -- Pilgrimage studies at differant levels / Gisbert Rinschede -- Becoming a place of pilgrimage: an Eliadean interpretation of the miracle at Ambridge, Pennsylvania / Carolyn V. Prorok -- Sect. 3. Pilgrimages in the Muslim tradition. Pilgrimage to Mecca and the centrality of Islam / Gwyn Rowley -- Muslim pilgrimage from Malaysia / Abdul Kadir Din and Abdul Samad Hadi -- Sect. 4. Pilgrimages in the Hindu tradition. Goal of Indian pilgrimage: geographical considerations / David E. Sopher -- Sacred space and pilgrimage in Hindu society: the case of Varanasi / Rana P.B. Singh -- Role of pilgrimage priests in perpetuating spatial organization within Hinduism / Anita Caplin -- Sect. 5. Pilgrimages in other religions of Asia. Jaina ascetic as manifestation of the sacred / Thomas McCormick -- Patterns of pilgrimage to the Sikh shrine of Guru Gobind Singh at Patna / P.P. Karan -- Shikoku pilgrimage: essential characteristics of a Japanese Buddhist pilgrimage complex / Hiroshi T. Shimazaki -- Sect. 5. Postlude. Pilgrimage: culture and geography / Philip L. Wagner

ISBN

• 0938909665
• 9780938909668

LCCN

96047392

OCLC

• 35770976
• SCSB-10371785

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library