Religious journeys in India: pilgrims, tourists, and travelers
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction New Motivations for Religious Travel in India -- Mapping an Interdisciplinary Journey through Indian Religious Sites -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Section I. Constructing Community Spaces -- Chapter 1 Making Sacred Islamic Space in Contemporary...
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| Language: | English |
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Albany
State University of New York Press
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
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India
/ Spiritual tourism
/ Pilgrimage
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Collection of essays
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| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction New Motivations for Religious Travel in India -- Mapping an Interdisciplinary Journey through Indian Religious Sites -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Section I. Constructing Community Spaces -- Chapter 1 Making Sacred Islamic Space in Contemporary India -- Islamic Places of Pilgrimage in India -- Husain Tekri as an Indian Islamic Sacred Space -- Local versus Global: Making Islamic Sacred Space in Modern India -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2 Remaking Thai Buddhism through International Pilgrimage to South Asia -- Popularity of the Pilgrimage -- Motivations for Travel -- Experiencing the Buddha -- Negotiating Buddhist Community -- Engagement with India -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3 Augmenting Pilgrimages: A Religious Theme Park in Shegaon, Maharashtra -- Religious Theme Parks: "Theme-ing" the Religious -- The Pilgrim Town of Shegaon -- The Experience of Visiting Anand Sagar -- Anand Sagar as a Driver of Religious Tourism: Implications -- Anand Sagar and Social Changes in Shegaon -- Commodification of Religious Experience at Anand Sagar -- Economic Growth within a Landscape of Uneven Development -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Section II. Pilgrimage as Paradox -- Chapter 4 Appropriating Ayodhya on "Valor Day": Hindu Nationalism and Pilgrimage as Politics -- Ayodhya at the Center of Hindutva Activism: Events and Analysis -- Understanding the Hindutva Perspective on Ayodhya -- Locating Hindutva at Ayodhya -- "Valor Day" as a Celebration of Hindu National Resurgence -- Ayodhya's Honor and Hindutva Masculinity -- Ayodhya and the Politics of Awakening -- Concluding Reflections -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5 Bihar as Christian Anti-Pilgrimage Site: Missions, Evangelism, and Religious Geography -- Introduction -- A Typology of Pilgrimage Sites Constructing Bihar as Christian "Graveyard" of Missions -- The Mission: History, Spirituality, and Justice -- A "Graveyard" Ethnography: Christian Missionary Work in Contemporary Bihar -- Pilgrimages, Missions, and "Evangelical Osmosis" -- Rethinking the "Anti-Pilgrimage" -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6 Seeking the Self in a Land of Strangers: New Religiosity and the Spiritual Marketplace of Rishikesh -- History of Spiritual Tourism in Rishikesh -- The Spiritual Marketplace -- Spiritual Topography of Rishikesh -- New Religiosity, Spiritual Journeys, and Tourism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7 Proxy Pilgrimage: Seeing Tibet in Dharamsala, India -- "Spiritual Tourism" as Productive Oxymoron -- Contemporary Tibetan Buddhist Pilgrimage in India, According to the Manual -- Dharamsala as Qualia -- Concluding Thoughts: Khyentse, Dharamsala, and the Myth of Tibet -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Section III. Reversals and Revisions -- Chapter 8 The Power of the "Little Hajj": Memory, Ritual, and Pilgrimage in South Indian Islam -- Introduction -- The Hajj and Ziyārat -- Varieties of Regional Pilgrimage among South Indian Muslims -- Inscribing Indian Karbalas: Extending Shi'i Practice to Local Realms -- Women Pilgrims' Practices in Nellore -- Understanding Muslim Pilgrimage in South India -- Putting Global and Local Muslim Networks in Perspective -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 9 What Are Sikhs Doing at "Historical Gurdwaras" If They're Not on Pilgrimage? Saints, Dust, and Memorial Presence at Sikh Religious Places -- Introduction -- "Anti-Pilgrimage" Orthodoxy, "Pro-Gurdwara" Orthopraxy -- Janam Sakhis and Emerging Sikh Geographies -- Theologies, Ethnographies, and Cartographies of Dust at Sikh Religious Places -- Concluding Reflections -- Notes -- Works Cited Chapter 10 "Reverse Pilgrimage": Performance, Manipuri Identity, and the Ranganiketan Cultural Arts Troupe -- Introduction -- Starting from Manipur -- Indigenous and Adopted Performing Arts in Manipur -- Ranganiketan and Its Founder -- Reverse Pilgrimage -- Ranganiketan: Challenges and Contributions -- Ranganiketan's Multiple Roles and Contributions to Identity Construction -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 11 Imagined Place: American Women's Missionary Journeys in Southern India -- Traveling and Missionary Objectives -- Shifting Missions -- The Missionaries -- The Religious Journey to India -- The Scudder Model of Missionary History -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index |
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| ISBN: | 1438466048 |