Abstract
Pilgrimages have become extremely popular in times of postmodernity. Technological innovations, processes of social dynamism and the blurring boundaries to tourism have changed the conditions under which they take place. In order to understand these transformations but also to discover ongoing continuities, the volume analyzes pilgrimages and processions in different historical epochs and cultural traditions. The great variety of cultural traditions allows insight into the social and physical organizations of non-European pilgrimages and their expansion by diaspora communities to different continents. The various meanings and construction of sacred places, under stood as landscapes of imaginations, reflect the creative processes of which pilgrims are part. In establishing such sacred topographies, questions of identity in relation to state power become important in many studies. Written by an interdisciplinary group of authors the texts display a wide range of methods and controversial issues of theories adding to our understanding of pilgrimages as cultural archives.
Inhalt
- 7-36Approaching the Sacred / Ute Luig / 2018
- 37-58Approaching the Sacred in Chinese past Contexts / Angelika C. Messner / 2018
- 58-89Approaching Emptiness: Buddhist Pilgrimage in Japan / Katja Triplett / 2018
- 91-127The Panhellenic Festival of Artemis Leukophryene in Magnesia-On-The-Meander / Kristoph Hammerschmied (geb. Jürgens) / 2018
- 129-157Processions and Pilgrimage in Ancient Greece: Some Iconographical Considerations / Jana Kubatzki / 2018
- 159-199Ca’ripalit Sangh: Jain Group Pilgrimages on Foot / Andrea Luithle-Hardenberg / 2018
- 201-237Pilgrimage to the Qoyllur Rit‘i and the Feast of Corpus Christi / Axel Schäfer / 2018
- 239-275The Sakalava Pilgrimage as a Royal Service (Western Madagascar) / Peter Kneitz / 2018
- 277-298Kevelaer – A New Place for Tamil Pilgrimages in the Diaspora / Brigitte Luchesi / 2018
- 299-321When Senegalese Tidjanis Meet in Fez: The Political and Economic Dimensions of a Transnational Sufi Pilgrimage / Johara Berriane / 2018
- 323-359From Popular Pilgrimage Festival to State Monastic Performance – The Politics of Cultural Production at Gomphu Kora, East Bhutan / Mona Schrempf / 2018
Herausgeber
Ute Luig war Professorin für Ethnologie an der Freien Universität von 1990 bis 2010 sowie Dekanin des Fachbereichs Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften von 2006 bis 2008. Im Exzellenzcluster Topoi war sie Principal Investigator der Forschungsgruppe (C-III) Acts . Bei ihren zahlreichen Forschungsinteressen widmet sie sich bevorzugt den Themen afrikanische Religionen und Besessenheit.
Citation
BibTeX
@collection{Luig2018,
editor = {Ute Luig},
title = {Approaching the Sacred},
subtitle = {Pilgrimage in historical and intercultural perspective},
series = {Berlin Studies of the Ancient World},
number = {49},
date = {2018},
publisher = {Edition Topoi},
location = {Berlin},
keywords = {
"interdisziplinäre Forschung", "Pilgerreisen"},
url = {http://edition-topoi.org/books/details/1377},
urldate = {2019-02-21},
doi = {10.17171/3-49},
isbn = {978-3-9818369-3-6},
}