Religious journeys in India : pilgrims, tourists, and travelers /

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Imprint:	Albany : State University of New York Press, [2018] ©2018
Description:	xiii, 323 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Pilgrims and pilgrimages -- India. Tourism -- Religious aspects. Tourism -- India. Pilgrims and pilgrimages. Tourism. Tourism -- Religious aspects. India.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11794419

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Other authors / contributors:	Pinkney, Andrea Marion, editor. Whalen-Bridge, John, 1961- editor.
ISBN:	9781438466033 143846603X 9781438466040 1438466048
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	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 tribal, 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 Imphal, Manipur and Shegaon, Maharashtra.
Other form:	Online version: Religious journeys in India. Albany : State University of New York, [2017] 9781438466040
Standard no.:	40028460846

Table of Contents:

New motivations for religious travel in India / Andrea Marion Pinkney and John Whalen-Bridge
Making sacred Islamic space in contemporary India / Carla Bellamy
Remaking Thai Buddhism through international pilgrimage to South Asia / Joanna Cook
Augmenting pilgrimages: a religious theme park in Shegaon, Maharashtra / Kiran A. Shinde
Appropriating Ayodkya on "Valor Day": Hindu nationalism and pilgrimage as politics / Dibyesh Anand
Bihar as Christian anti-pilgrimage site: missions, evangelism, and religious geography / Robbie B.H. Goh
Seeking the self in a land of strangers: new religiosity and the spiritual marketplace of Rishikesh / Alex Norman
Proxy pilgrimage: seeing Tibet in Dharamsala, India / John Whalen-Bridge
The power of the "Little Hajj": memory, ritual, and pilgrimage in South Indian Islam / Afsar Mohammad
What are Sikhs doing at "Historical Gurdwaras" if they're not on pilgrimage? Saints, dust and memorial presence at Sikh religious places / Andrea Marion Pinkney
"Reverse Pilgramage": performance, manipuri identity, and the Ranganiketan cultural arts troupe / Rodney Sebastian
Imagined place: American women's missionary journeys in Southern India / Roberta Woolons.

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