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Recent Social Concerns Regarding the Integration of Technology in Islamic Pilgrimage [PDF]

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences
Hajj and Umrah are two major pilgrimage events that bring millions of Muslims together every year, coming from diverse ethnic and theological backgrounds. Creating unique social phenomena in which Muslims experience social identity formation.
Ballout Shaimaa
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Where the Heroes and Sky-Goers Gather: A Study of the Sauraṭa Pilgrimage

open access: yesReligions, 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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Pilgrimage in Islam: Traditional and Modern Practices

open access: yesAmerican 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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Philosophy of Pilgrimage of the Holy Prophets and Infallible People and its Effect on giving Meaning to Human Life [PDF]

open access: yesInternational 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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Gendered spaces and practice,relationality, emotion and affect at the Marian shrine of Ta Pinu, Gozo, Malta [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Walking Pilgrimage as Ritual for Ending Partnerships

open access: yesReligions, 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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Problems of pilgrimages [PDF]

open access: yesPostgraduate Medical Journal, 1975
‘Then longen man to go on pilgrimage, to Canterbury, the holy blissful martyr for to seek’. Chaucer, Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
openaire   +2 more sources

Practicing the Perfections: \u3ci\u3eCommunitas\u3c/i\u3e During the \u3ci\u3eSaga Dawa Kortsay\u3c/i\u3e at Swayambhunath, Nepal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Based on observations from personal participation in the 2014 Saga Dawa Kortsay at Swayambhunath Stupa complex located near Kathmandu, Nepal, my essay draws attention to the distinctive lay Buddhist community that is formed in such ritual performances ...
Sorensen, Michelle J.
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Pelvic morphology and body size in relation to the preauricular sulcus: Evidence from medieval to modern Iberia

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The preauricular sulcus has long been debated as a pelvic feature variably attributed to obstetric stress, ligamentous traction, and broader biomechanical processes. To clarify its determinants, we analyzed 409 adult individuals from three archeological and one early modern skeletal collection from the Iberian Peninsula, integrating graded ...
Rebeca García‐González   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Globalization, Glocalization, and the Changing Nature of Pilgrimage in a Post-Secular World

open access: yesAd Limina
Globalization is a commonly used term to describe the rapid changes and spatial transformations that have taken place on a global scale over the past forty years.
Daniel H. Olsen
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