Muslim pilgrimage in the modern world
edited by Babak Rahimi and Peyman Eshaghi.
Bok Engelsk 2019
| Omfang | ix, 277 pages : : illustrations, maps ;
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| Opplysninger | Sacrifice and pilgrimage: body politics and origins of Muslim pilgrimage / Brannon Wheeler -- The Hajj and politics in China / Robert R. Bianchi -- Pilgrimage and transnational religious imagination in the Muslim communities in Brazil / Paulo Pinto -- Red, white, and blue: American Muslims on Hajj and the politics of pilgrimage / Sophia Rose Arjana and Rose Aslan -- Pilgrimages of the dream: on wings of state in Sehwan Sharif, Pakistan / Omar Kasmani -- Shrines and pilgrimage in southern Kazakhstan / Azim Malikov -- Economies of piety at the Syrian shrine of Sayyida Zaynab / Edith Szanto -- Grave visiting (ziyara) in Indonesia / Julian Millie and Lewis Mayo -- Jamkaran: messianic experience and digital pilgrimage / Babak Rahimi -- The call of the shrine / Emilio Spadola -- Pilgrimage to a ritual: the sacred fluid geography of Bohras Muharram -- Reza Masoudi Nejad.. - "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"--
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| ISBN | 9781469651453 (cloth : alk. paper). - 9781469651460 (pbk : alk. paper)
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| ISBN(galt) | 9781469651477 (ebook)
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