Muslim Pilgrimage in the Modern World
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ethnography
grave visitation
Hajj
Mecca
Memory and ritual
Messianic experience
Pilgrimage and Tourism
Politics of pilgrimage
Queer theory
Ritual studies
Sacred geography
Sacrifice and ritual
Shrine
Virtual pilgrimage
Ziyara
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- ISBN 9781469651460
- Weight: 440g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jun 2019
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Pilgrimage is one of the most significant ritual duties for Muslims, entailing the visitation and veneration of sites associated with the Prophet Muhammad or saintly figures. As demonstrated in this multidisciplinary volume, the lived religion of pilgrimage, defined by embodied devotional practices, is changing in an age characterized by commerce, technology, and new sociocultural and political frameworks. Traveling to and far beyond the Hajj, the most well-known Muslim pilgrimage, the volume's contributors reveal and analyze emerging contemporary Islamic pilgrimage practices around the world, in minority- and majority-Muslim countries as well as in urban and rural settings. What was once a tiny religious attraction in a remote village, for example, may begin to draw increasing numbers of pilgrims to shrines and tombs as the result of new means of travel, thus triggering significant changes in the traditional rituals, and livelihoods, of the local people. Organized around three key themes—history and politics; embodiment, memory, and material religion; and communications—the book reveals how rituals, practices, and institutions are experienced in the context of an inexorable global capitalism.
The volume contributors are Sophia Rose Arjana, Rose Aslan, Robert R. Bianchi, Omar Kasmani, Azim Malikov, Lewis Mayo, Julian Millie, Reza Masoudi Nejad, Paulo G. Pinto, Babak Rahimi, Emilio Spadola, Edith Szanto, and Brannon Wheeler.
The volume contributors are Sophia Rose Arjana, Rose Aslan, Robert R. Bianchi, Omar Kasmani, Azim Malikov, Lewis Mayo, Julian Millie, Reza Masoudi Nejad, Paulo G. Pinto, Babak Rahimi, Emilio Spadola, Edith Szanto, and Brannon Wheeler.
Babak Rahimi is director of the Program for the Study of Religion and associate professor of communication, culture, and religion at the University of California San Diego.
Peyman Eshaghi is a doctoral student in anthropology and sociology of religion at the University of Chicago.
Peyman Eshaghi is a doctoral student in anthropology and sociology of religion at the University of Chicago.
