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• 2007 Ad 

  Introduction The black and white photograph is of a group of peasant women, wrapped in coarse woolen shawls against the January cold. (1) They...

  09/01/09 by Kama Maclean · More from publication

• Pluralistic pilgrimage: travel as the quest for the strange 

  "The aim of knowledge," declares Hegel, "is to divest the objective world of its strangeness and to make us more at home in it." (1) Some might say...

  09/01/09 by Frederick J. Ruf · More from publication

• Encountering Gods and Goddesses: two pilgrimages to Greece 

  Prologue A hotel room on the island of Samos, Greece. Close to midnight, the hotel quiet around us. The room is lit only by the flickering light...

  09/01/09 by Jill Dubisch · More from publication

• Dead serious: a theology of literary pilgrimage 

  ... for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have...

  09/01/09 by Darren J.N. Middleton · More from publication

• Rome: Multiversal city: the material and the immaterial in religious tourism 

  The modern tourist industry in the West is organized conceptually around a secular agenda; and yet much tourism is associated with religion. Donald...

  09/01/09 by Graham Holderness · More from publication

• Kyoto pilgrimage past and present 

  Introduction Kyoto, or Heian-kyo as it was known for most of its history, is perhaps unlike other pilgrimage cities in the world. It has no one...

  09/01/09 by Pamela D. Winfield · More from publication

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