Research Catalog

Title

Pilgrimage and ambiguity : sharing the sacred / edited by Angela Hobart and Thierry Zarcone.

Publication

Canon Pyon, Herefordshire : Sean Kingston Publishing, 2017.

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Additional Authors

• Hobart, Angela
• Zarcone, Thierry

Description

viii, 242 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps; 24 cm

Subject

Pilgrims and pilgrimages

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. Ambiguous sacred places in the Mediterranean. Chapter 1. Towards a reappraisal of ambiguity: In the footsteps of Frederick W. Hasluck /Dionigi Albera -- Chapter 2. From the god Amon to Sufi mawlids /Pierre-Jean Luizard -- Chapter 3. 'Ambiguity in context' according to Islamic thought: Bridging theory and actuality relating to saints in Islam /Yasushi Tonaga -- II. Pilgrimages and sacred places in the Indo-Persian world and China. Chapter 4. Chinese, Tibetan and Mongol Buddhists on Wutaishan (China) from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century /Isabelle Charleaux -- Chapter 5. Betwixt and Between: Figures of ambiguity in the Sufi cult of Lāl Shāhbāz Qalandar (Pakistan) /Jürgen Wasim Frembegen -- Chapter 6. Syncretism and the superimosition of Islam on Buddhism in the Pamir: Mountain cults and saint veneration /Theirry Zarcone -- III. Ambiguity sites cross-culturally. Chapter 7. Monte Verita, the 'Mountain of Truth' in Ascona: a pilgrimage site of paradoxes and contradiction /Angela Hobart -- Chapter 8. The Seven Sleepers pilgrimage in Brittany: The ambiguity of a Christian-Muslim 'heterotopia' /Manoël Pénicaud -- Chapter 9. Multi-centric mythscapes: Sanctuaries and pilgrimages in north-west Amazonian Arawakan religious traditions /Robin M. Wright, Omar Gonzále Nanez and Carlos César Xavier Leal.

ISBN

• 1907774777
• 9781907774775

OCLC

1013487682

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library