Pilgrimage is one of the most significant ritual duties for
Muslims, entailing the visitation and veneration of sites
associated with the Prophet Muhammad or saintly figures. As
demonstrated in this multidisciplinary volume, the lived religion
of pilgrimage, defined by embodied devotional practices, is
changing in an age characterized by commerce, technology, and new
sociocultural and political frameworks. Traveling to and far beyond
the Hajj, the most well-known Muslim pilgrimage, the volume's
contributors reveal and analyze emerging contemporary Islamic
pilgrimage practices around the world, in minority- and
majority-Muslim countries as well as in urban and rural settings.
What was once a tiny religious attraction in a remote village, for
example, may begin to draw increasing numbers of pilgrims to
shrines and tombs as the result of new means of travel, thus
triggering significant changes in the traditional rituals, and
livelihoods, of the local people. Organized around three key
themes-history and politics; embodiment, memory, and material
religion; and communications-the book reveals how rituals,
practices, and institutions are experienced in the context of an
inexorable global capitalism. The volume contributors are Sophia
Rose Arjana, Rose Aslan, Robert R. Bianchi, Omar Kasmani, Azim
Malikov, Lewis Mayo, Julian Millie, Reza Masoudi Nejad, Paulo G.
Pinto, Babak Rahimi, Emilio Spadola, Edith Szanto, and Brannon
Wheeler.
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