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The experience of pilgrimage in the Roman Empire: communitas, paideiā, and piety-signaling [PDF]
, 2020 Pilgrimage of various types is well attested in the pre-Christian religions of the Roman Empire, but there is comparatively little evidence for the personal experiences of pilgrims.
Gasparini, Valentino +5 more
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Where the Heroes and Sky-Goers Gather: A Study of the Sauraṭa Pilgrimage
Religions, 2017 Tibetan and Himālayan Buddhist doctrine and meditative traditions have been extensively studied and are well-known even to non-scholars, but pilgrimage and other non-elite practices have received far less attention.
Paul B. Donnelly
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‘Unlikely Adventures’ in Sacred and Secular Space: India and the Sikh Diaspora
International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage, 2023 The Sikh relationship with pilgrimage models is ambivalent and complicated; however, this relationship has been revived and reinvented because of several historical, cultural, and political transitions: the extensive Sikh diaspora; familiarity of ...
Dorothy Lane
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Pilgrimages: Law and Culture in Multicultural Societies
AIMS Geosciences, 2016 Pilgrimage is an age-old way of expressing one's religious faith through a collective religious ritual that can be found throughout the ages and among all peoples. Pilgrimage is, however, also an institution regulated by precise rules.
Maria Luisa Lo Giacco
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Gendered spaces and practice,relationality, emotion and affect at the Marian shrine of Ta Pinu, Gozo, Malta [PDF]
, 2016 In this chapter the case study of Ta’ Pinu, Gozo, a site of pilgrimage for Marian devotion and the national shrine of Malta, is analysed as a gendered assemblage and an example of the intersection of gender and religion, with attention to the spatial and
Maddrell, Avril
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Philosophy of Pilgrimage of the Holy Prophets and Infallible People and its Effect on giving Meaning to Human Life [PDF]
International Multidisciplinary Journal of Pure Life, 2022 SUBJECT AND OBJECTIVES: The subject of this research is to explain the philosophy of pilgrimage of the Holy Prophets and infallible people and its effect on giving meaning to human life.
Hakimeh-Sadat Nateghi (Afghanistan) +1 more
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Pilgrimage in Islam: Traditional and Modern Practices
American Journal of Islam and Society, 2018 Pilgrimage in Islam is a religious act wherein Muslims leave their homes and spaces and travel to another place, the nature, geography, and dispositions of which they are unfamiliar.
Nazar Ul Islam Wani
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Walking Pilgrimage as Ritual for Ending Partnerships
Religions, 2023 Scholarship in pilgrimage studies suggests that people use travel to sacred sites to mark life transitions such as moving into adulthood, retirement, the death of a loved one, or the ending of an intimate relationship.
Kathleen E. Jenkins
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Women in Britain’s First Muslim Mosques:Hidden from History, but Not Without Influence [PDF]
, 2020 Two of the earliest Muslim communities in Britain evolved around the first mosques in Liverpool and Woking (both—1889). The history of these early British Muslims is being recovered but little is known about the women (usually converts) in these ...
Cheruvallil-Contractor, Sariya
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Family Medicine, 2022 This chapter shows why definitions in the social sciences are politically sensitive but often necessary. It demonstrates the limitations of an Anglophone approach to studying pilgrimage literature, while exploring terms for pilgrimage in different languages.
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