Religious Journeys in India: Explores how religious travel in India is transforming religious identities and self-constructions.: Pilgrims, Tourists, and Travelers - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1438466021 ISBN 13: 9781438466026

Casa editrice: State University of New York Press, 2019

Riassunto

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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Andrea Marion Pinkney is Associate Professor of South Asian Religions at McGill University. John Whalen-Bridge is Associate Professor of English at the National University of Singapore. He is the coeditor (with Gary Storhoff) of many books, including The Emergence of Buddhist American Literature; American Buddhism as a Way of Life; Writing as Enlightenment: Buddhist American Literature into the Twenty-first Century; and Buddhism and American Cinema, all published by SUNY Press. He is also the author of Tibet on Fire: Buddhism, Protest, and the Rhetoric of Self-Immolation.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: State University of New York Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1438466021
• ISBN 13: 9781438466026
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 338
• Redattore: Pinkney Marion Andrea, Whalen-Bridge John
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