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A fascinating guide through the vast & varied cultural territory that pilgrimages have covered across the ages around the world. Examines the multiple forms pilgrimage has taken over its long history, looking at it both as a physical journey through time & space, & as a metaphor for the pilgrim's search for his or her religious identity. The first book to look at the phenomenon & experience of pilgrimage through the multiple lenses of history, religion, sociology, anthro. & art history. First-hand accounts of modern-day pilgrims run alongside folk-tales & narratives of the crusades to reveal the common structures & singular features of sacred travel from ancient times to our own. Over 100 photos.
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Simon Coleman is Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Durham.
John Elsner is a Lecturer in Classical and Early Christian Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.
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John Elsner is a Lecturer in Classical and Early Christian Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.
Coleman and Elsner's study offers irrefutable evidence that humans the world over yearn to connect with that which is held holy in a particular place that is considered holy.
--Zachary Karabell (Boston Book Review)
In tracing sacred travels from fifth-century B.C.E. Greece to the Holy Land in the late twentieth century and from monotheistic traditions to those of Indian religions and the Buddhist world, Simon Coleman and John Elsner propose a novel journey of the mind.
--Julia Clancy-Smith (American Historical Review)
--Zachary Karabell (Boston Book Review)
In tracing sacred travels from fifth-century B.C.E. Greece to the Holy Land in the late twentieth century and from monotheistic traditions to those of Indian religions and the Buddhist world, Simon Coleman and John Elsner propose a novel journey of the mind.
--Julia Clancy-Smith (American Historical Review)
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- PublisherDiane Pub Co
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0756755336
- ISBN 13 9780756755331
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages240
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