Pilgrimage and Political Economy : : Translating the Sacred / / ed. by John Eade, Simon Coleman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Albera, Dionigi,; Claveyrolas, Mathieu,; Coleman, Simon,; Delage, Rémy,; Eade, John,; Fedele, Anna,; Geary, David,; Katić, Mario,; Louw, Maria,; Mola, Patricia Fortuny Loret de,; Steil, Carlos Alberto,
• HerausgeberIn: Coleman, Simon,; Eade, John,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (206 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Introduction. Pilgrimage and Political Economy: Introduction to a Research Agenda
• Chapter 1 From the Indian Ganges to a Mauritian Lake: Hindu Pilgrimage in a ‘Diasporic’ Context
• Chapter 2 Transnational Courting through Shakyamuni Buddha: Japanese Pilgrimage and Geographical Dowries in North India
• Chapter 3 Sufism and the Pilgrimage Market: A Political Economy of a Shrine in Southern Pakistan
• Chapter 4 Allah Always Hears the Prayers of a Traveller: Nationalized Shrines and Transnational Imaginaries in Bukhara
• Chapter 5 ‘Pilgrimage Capital’ and Bosnian Croat Pilgrimage Places: Bosnian Croat Pilgrimages and Transnational Ties through Time and Space
• Chapter 6 Translating Catholic Pilgrimage Sites into Energy Grammar: Contested Spiritual Practices in Chartres and Vézelay
• Chapter 7 A Pentecostal Shrine in Mexico: Ethnography of Migration and Pilgrimage
• Chapter 8 The Paths of Saint James in Brazil: Body, Spirituality and Market
• Afterword: Going beyond the Elusive Nature of Pilgrimage
• Index