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Powers of Pilgrimage - Religion in a World of Movement (Paperback)
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Powers of Pilgrimage - Religion in a World of Movement (Paperback)
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A groundbreaking reframing of religious pilgrimage Pious
processions. Sites of miraculous healing. Journeys to far-away
sacred places. These are what are usually called to mind when we
think of religious pilgrimage. Yet while pilgrimage can include
journeying to the heart of sacred shrines, it can also occur in
apparently mundane places. Indeed, not everyone has the resources
or mobility to take part in religiously inspired movement to
foreign lands, and some find meaning in religious movement closer
to home and outside of officially sanctioned practices. Powers of
Pilgrimage argues that we must question the universality of Western
assumptions of what religion is and where it should be located,
including the notion that "genuine" pilgrimage needs to be
associated with discrete, formally recognized forms of religiosity.
This necessary volume makes the case for expanding our gaze to
reconsider the salience, scope, and scale of contemporary forms of
pilgrimage and pilgrimage-related activity. It shows that we need
to reflect on how pilgrimage sites, journeys, rituals, stories, and
metaphors are entangled with each other and with wider aspects of
people's lives, ranging from an action as trivial as a stroll down
the street to the magnitude of forced migration to another country
or continent. Offering a new theoretical lexicon and framework for
exploring human pilgrimage, Powers of Pilgrimage presents a broad
overview of how we can understand pilgrimage activity and proposes
that it should be understood not solely as going to, staying at,
and leaving a sacred place, but also as occurring in ordinary
times, places, and practices.
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