Sacred journeys: the anthropology of pilgrimage

Abstract

Foreword by Victor Turner Preface Introduction by Alan Morinis Theoretical Issues Methodological Issues in the Study of Pilgrimage by James J. Preston Pilgrimage and Tourism: Convergence and Divergence by Erik Cohen Case Studies India The Great Maharashtrian Pilgrimage: Pandharpur and Alandi by John M. Stanley Velankanni Calling: Hindu Patterns of Pilgrimage at a Christian Shrine by Paul Younger North America and the Caribbean Persistent Peregrination: From Sun Dance to Catholic Pilgrimage among Canadian Prairie Indians by Alan Morinis Pilgrimage and Heresy: The Transformation of Faith at a Shrine in Wisconsin by Peter W. Wood Pilgrimage in the Caribbean: A Comparison of Cases from Haiti and Trinidad by Stephen D. Glazier West Asia and Africa Pilgrim Narratives of Jerusalem and the Holy Land: A Study of Ideological Distortion by Glenn Bowman Pilgrimage and Its Influence on West African Islam by James Steel Thayer Specialists in Miraculous Action: Some Shrines in Shiraz by Anne Betteridge Southeast Asia and Pacific Sanctification Overland: The Creation of a Thai Buddhist Pilgrimage Center by James B. Pruess Mission to Waitangi: A Maori Pilgrimage by Karen Sinclair Postscript by Colin Turnbull Bibliography Index