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The Islands of the Sun and the Moon in Bolivias Lake Titicaca were two of the most sacred locations in the Inca empire A panAndean belief held that they marked the origin place of the Sun and the Moon and pilgrims from across the Inca realm made ritual journeys to the sacred shrines there In this book Brian Bauer and Charles Stanish explore the extent to which this use of the islands as a pilgrimage center during Inca times was founded on and developed from earlier religious traditions of the Lake Titicaca regionDrawing on a systematic archaeological survey and test excavations in the islands as well as data from historical texts and ethnography the authors document a succession of complex polities in the islands from 2000 BC to the time of European contact in the 1530s AD They uncover significant evidence of preInca ritual use of the islands which raises the compelling possibility that the religious significance of the islands is of great antiquity The authors also use these data to address broader anthropological questions on the role of pilgrimage centers in the development of premodern states
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The twin concepts of kinship and pilgrimage have deep roots in Protestant culture This cultural anthropological study based in part on the authors own fieldwork argues that in Reformed Protestantism the Catholic custom of making pilgrimages to sacred spots has been replaced by the custom of reunion in which scattered members of a family or group return each year to their place of origin to take part in a quasisacred ritual meal and other ritual activities Neville discusses open air services and kinbased gatherings in the Southern United States and Scotland as examples of symbolic forms that express certain themes in Northern European Protestant culture contrasting these forms with the symbolic social statements in the Roman Catholic liturgical world of medieval Europe and traditional Mediterranean Catholicism According to Neville Protestant rituals of reunion such as family reunion church homecoming cemetery association day camp meeting and denomination conference center are part of an institutionalized pilgrimage complex that comments on Protestant culture and belief while presenting a symbolic inversion of the pilgrimage and the culture of Roman Catholic tradition
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In this inspiring and beautiful book Gertraud Wild weaves together the 1200 plus kilometer 88 Temple Way pilgrimage in Shikoku Japan with the history and culture of the island Her willingness to experience the trail as an authentic pilgrim by performing the buddhist rituals living in ryokans minshukus and shukubos and keeping an open mind makes this book a joy to read Her stay at the Soto Zen temple Zuioji where she was included in the daily practices of the monks gives readers a unique perspective on a rarely seen worldShikoku The 88 Temple Way is a must read for everyone interested in walking this or any other pilgrimage and is especially rewarding for people interested in Buddhism spirituality Japanese culture and historyThe book also provides additional insight into Japanese temple and shrine architecture in an appendix written by Yuko Iwatani
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Among the duties God imposes upon every Muslim capable of doing so is a pilgrimage to the holy places in and around Mecca in Arabia Not only is it a religious ritual filled with blessings for the millions who make the journey annually but it is also a social political and commercial experience that for centuries has set in motion a flood of travelers across the worlds continents Whatever its outcomespiritual enrichment cultural exchange financial gain or ruinthe road to Mecca has long been an exhilarating human adventure By collecting the firsthand accounts of these travelers and shaping their experiences into a richly detailed narrative F E Peters here provides an unparalleled literary history of the central ritual of Islam from its remote preIslamic origins to the end of the Hashimite Kingdom of the Hijaz in 1926
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Every religious act has an inner and outer dimension In Islam perhaps the most dramatic of rituals is the great pilgrimage to Mecca Inwardly this is a solitary journey to sanctify the heart It is a Sufi path down which all seekers must travel and this book can guide their way
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The Tibetan district of Tsari with its sacred snowcovered peak of Pure Crystal Mountain has long been a place of symbolic and ritual significance for Tibetan peoples In this book Toni Huber provides the first thorough study of a major Tibetan Buddhist pilgrimage center and cult mountain and explores the esoteric and popular traditions of ritual there The main focus is on the period of the 1940s and 50s just prior to the 1959 Lhasa uprising and subsequent Tibetan diaspora into South Asia Hubers work thus documents Tibetan life patterns and cultural traditions which have largely disappeared with the advent of Chinese colonial modernity in Tibet In addition to the works documentary content Huber offers discussion and analysis of the construction and meaning of Tibetan cultural categories of space place and person and the practice of ritual and organization of traditional society in relation to them
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Prior to the nineteenth century the experience of popular Catholicism in Ireland was associated with extended pilgrimages and with rituals performed at thousands of holy wells The study of popular religion in Ireland has for centuries been dominated by a model which sees these practices as remnants of an archaic and largely pagan tradition inherited from a distant Celtic pastIn Irish Pilgrimage Holy Wells and Popular Catholic Devotion sociologist Michael P Carroll refutes this model and offers a fresh perspective These rites were not ancient at all Carroll explains they arose in the wake of the Reformation as ordinary Catholics attempted to merge ideas imported from CounterReformation Europe with distinctively Irish traditions The variant that resulted provided a religious experience that appealed to all levels of Irish Catholic society in both rural and urban areaspeasants and city dwellers alike thought pilgrimages essential to their identity as Irish Catholics In the years just before the Famine however the structure of society changed and the appeal of this variant would ultimately dissolveA social historical and psychological study of religion history and literature in Romantic Ireland Irish Pilgrimage Holy Wells and Popular Catholic Devotion is the unique story of people struggling to express their religious identities in ways that were both impeccably Catholic and yet distinctively Irish
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Prior to the nineteenth century the experience of popular Catholicism in Ireland was associated with extended pilgrimages and with rituals performed at thousands of holy wells The study of popular religion in Ireland has for centuries been dominated by a model which sees these practices as remnants of an archaic and largely pagan tradition inherited from a distant Celtic pastIn Irish Pilgrimage Holy Wells and Popular Catholic Devotion sociologist Michael P Carroll refutes this model and offers a fresh perspective These rites were not ancient at all Carroll explains they arose in the wake of the Reformation as ordinary Catholics attempted to merge ideas imported from CounterReformation Europe with distinctively Irish traditions The variant that resulted provided a religious experience that appealed to all levels of Irish Catholic society in both rural and urban areaspeasants and city dwellers alike thought pilgrimages essential to their identity as Irish Catholics In the years just before the Famine however the structure of society changed and the appeal of this variant would ultimately dissolveA social historical and psychological study of religion history and literature in Romantic Ireland Irish Pilgrimage Holy Wells and Popular Catholic Devotion is the unique story of people struggling to express their religious identities in ways that were both impeccably Catholic and yet distinctively Irish
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Every few decades thousands of Hindu villagers in the Central Himalayas of North India carry their regional goddess Nandadevi in a bridal palanquin to her husband Shivas home walking barefoot over icebound mountain passes to a lake surrounded by human bones This Royal Pilgrimage of Nandadevi is a ritual dramatization of the postmarital journeys of married women from their natal homes to their husbands homes Mountain Goddessis an anthropological study of this pilgrimage and the cult of Nandadevi especially as they relate to local womens lives The author shows how Nandadevis appeal stems from the fact that her mythology parallels the lifecourses of the local peasant women and that her ritual procession imitates their annual journey to the village of their birth Drawing on formal Indian theories verbal commentaries songs interviews articles propaganda legends panIndian Sanskrit liturgies historical documents and the authors remarkable personal account of the pilgrimage this gripping narrative is a unique resource for courses in the anthropology of religion Hinduism and folklore ritual and gender studies
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The Tibetan district of Tsari with its sacred snowcovered peak of Pure Crystal Mountain has long been a place of symbolic and ritual significance for Tibetan peoples In this book Toni Huber provides the first thorough study of a major Tibetan Buddhist pilgrimage center and cult mountain and explores the esoteric and popular traditions of ritual there The main focus is on the period of the 1940s and 50s just prior to the 1959 Lhasa uprising and subsequent Tibetan diaspora into South Asia Hubers work thus documents Tibetan life patterns and cultural traditions which have largely disappeared with the advent of Chinese colonial modernity in Tibet In addition to the works documentary content Huber offers discussion and analysis of the construction and meaning of Tibetan cultural categories of space place and person and the practice of ritual and organization of traditional society in relation to them
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When people create new societies economies and nationsboth now and in the pastthey create gods rituals and miracles to support them Even what seem to be some of the most timeless and sacred sites in the world have been shaped reshaped and reinterpreted by countless people to produce oases of peace and nature today Using miracle tales votive plaques diaries and newspapers Sarah Thal traces such changes at one of the most popular Japanese pilgrimage sites of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the shrine of Konpira on the island of Shikoku This rich and fascinating history explores how people from all walks of life gave shape to the gods shrines and rituals so often attributed to ancient indigenous Japan Thal shows how worshippers and priests rulers and entrepreneurs repeatedly rebuilt and reinterpreted Konpira to reflect their needs and aspirations in a changing worldand how in doing so they helped shape the structures of the modern state economy and society in turn Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods will be welcomed by all scholars of Japanese history and by students of religion interested in the construction of modernity
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Yoruba peoples of southwestern Nigeria conceive of rituals as journeys sometimes actual sometimes virtual Performed as a parade or a procession a pilgrimage a masking display or possession trance the journey evokes the reflexive progressive transformative experience of ritual participation Yoruba Ritual is an original and provocative study of these practices Using a performance paradigm Margaret Thompson Drewal forges a new theoretical and methodological approach to the study of ritual that is thoroughly grounded in close analysis of the thoughts and actions of the participants Challenging traditional notions of ritual as rigid stereotypic and invariant Drewal reveals ritual to be progressive transformative generative and reflexive and replete with simultaneity multifocality contingency indeterminacy and intertextuality Throughout the book prominence is given to the intentionality of actors as knowledgeable agents who transform ritual itself through play and improvisation Integral to the narrative are interpolations about performances and their meanings by Kolawole Ositola a scholar of Yoruba oral tradition ritual practitioner diviner and master performer Rich descriptions of rituals relating to birth death reincarnation divination and constructions of gender are rendered all the more vivid by a generous selection of field photos of actual performances
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The Way of St James has been a pilgrimage event for over 1000 years as people have flocked to the site of the burial of the apostle St James the Great Legend states that the body of James was carried by boat from Jerusalem to Santiago de Compostela in Spain where a church was erected on the site of the tomb There is no single route for the pilgrims to follow but there are several key paths Kathleen Ashley and Marilyn Deegan capture the experience of the medieval pilgrim through an examination of art historical and social contexts as well as themes related to pilgrimage such as music legend and ritual The book is copiously illustrated with new photographs by Marilyn Deegan showcasing the visual legacy of the medieval pilgrimage experience in sculpture painting and architecture Interwoven in Kathleen Ashleys narrative text are original sources bringing to us the voice of these men and women who set out on what was then an epic journey
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The Incas carried out some of the most dramatic ceremonies known to us from ancient times Groups of people walked hundreds of miles across arid and mountainous terrain to perform them on mountains over 6096 m 20000 feet high The most important offerings made during these pilgrimages involved human sacrifices capacochas Although Spanish chroniclers wrote about these offerings and the state sponsored processions of which they were a part their accounts were based on secondhand sources and the only direct evidence we have of the capacocha sacrifices comes to us from archaeological excavations Some of the most thoroughly documented of these were undertaken on high mountain summits where the material evidence has been exceptionally well preserved In this study we describe the results of research undertaken on Mount Llullaillaco 6739 m22109 feet which has the worlds highest archaeological site The types of ruins and artifact assemblages recovered are described and analyzed By comparing the archaeological evidence with the chroniclers accounts and with findings from other mountaintop sites common patterns are demonstrated while at the same time previously little known elements contribute to our understanding of key aspects of Inca religion This study illustrates the importance of archaeological sites being placed within the broader context of physical and sacred features of the natural landscape
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The Incas carried out some of the most dramatic ceremonies known to us from ancient times Groups of people walked hundreds of miles across arid and mountainous terrain to perform them on mountains over 6096 m 20000 feet high The most important offerings made during these pilgrimages involved human sacrifices capacochas Although Spanish chroniclers wrote about these offerings and the state sponsored processions of which they were a part their accounts were based on secondhand sources and the only direct evidence we have of the capacocha sacrifices comes to us from archaeological excavations Some of the most thoroughly documented of these were undertaken on high mountain summits where the material evidence has been exceptionally well preserved In this study we describe the results of research undertaken on Mount Llullaillaco 6739 m22109 feet which has the worlds highest archaeological site The types of ruins and artifact assemblages recovered are described and analyzed By comparing the archaeological evidence with the chroniclers accounts and with findings from other mountaintop sites common patterns are demonstrated while at the same time previously little known elements contribute to our understanding of key aspects of Inca religion This study illustrates the importance of archaeological sites being placed within the broader context of physical and sacred features of the natural landscape
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