Religious Journeys in India: Pilgrims, Tourists, and Travelers

by Pinkney, Andrea Marion
ISBN: 9781438466033
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Overview

In an increasingly global world where convenient modes of travel have opened the door to international and intraregional tourism and brought together people from different religious and ethnic communities, religious journeying in India has become the site of evolving and often paradoxical forms of self-construction. Through ethnographic reflections, the contributors to this volume explore religious and nonreligious motivations for religious travel in India and show how pilgrimages, missionary travel, the exportation of cultural art forms, and leisure travel among coreligionists are transforming not only religious but also regional, national, transnational, and personal identities. The volume engages with central themes in South Asian studies such as gender, exile, and spirituality; a variety of religions, including Sikhism, Islam, Buddhism, and Christianity; and understudied regions and emerging places of pilgrimage such as Manipur and Maharashtra.
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Author: Pinkney, Andrea Marion
  • ISBN: 9781438466033
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 9.10 x 1.00
  • Number Of Pages: 338
  • Publication Year: 2018
Language: English