Pilgrims and travellers in search of the holy - Gothóni, René, 1950- (Bern : Peter Lang, 2010)
Introduction / René Gothóni -- Pt 1: Theoretical aspects of pilgrimage studies -- Pilgrimage: Three theoretical interpretations / René Gothóni -- Pilgrimage and the blessings of place-making: reflections on and beyond the anthropology of pilgrimage / Simon Coleman -- In search of learning and holiness: Scandinavians going abroad from the Middle Ages to the present / Jakob Christensson -- In the sphere of the holy: pilgrimage to a contemporary Greek convent / Mari-Johanna Rahkala -- Pt 2: Case studies of Buddhist and Hindu studies -- St Petersburg Datsan: the northernmost Buddhist temple in Europe / Alexandre I. Andreyev -- Pilgrimage as business in traditional India / Klaus Karttunen -- Pouring water on ́Siva: the case of Tarakeswar pilgrims / Riikka Uuksulainen -- The way is the goal: Buddhist circulatory pilgrimage in Japan with special reference to selected artefacts / Michael Pye -- Traditional Tibetan pilgrimage and the eight holy sites of Rebgong / Wuqi Chenaktsang -- A dead man's pilgrimage: the legend of the Wutun people in Amdo / Juha A. Janhunen -- Tourism, pilgrimage and the fluidity of material culture in Labrang/Xiahe / Juha Komppa -- Tibetan Buddhist nuns: Damcho Pema's prostrating pilgrimage to Lhasa / Lhundrub Dorji -- Some remarks on understanding the motives of Tibetan nuns / Mitra Härkönen.
"Papers ... delivered at an international symposium entitled "Pilgrims and travellers in search of the holy" convened in Helsinki in 2008".
Keywords: Buddhist pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Congresses; Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Congresses; Pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Congresses; buddhalaisuus; hindulaisuus; historia; pyhiinvaellukset; buddhism; hinduism; historia; pilgrimsfärder; Intia; Japani; Kreikka; Pohjoismaat; Sri Lanka; Tiibet; Venäjä; Indien; Japan; Grekland; Norden; Sri Lanka; Tibet; Ryssland; kokousjulkaisut; konferenspublikationer