Pilgrimage and AmbiguitySharing the Sacred

edited by Angela HOBART and Thierry ZARCONE

In association with The Centro Incontri Umani, Ascona

Colour Paperback, ISBN 978-1-907774-77-5, £25.00 (GBP), $40.00 (USD)e-BookISBN 978-1-907774-99-7 OPEN ACCESS (link)

Contents

Introduction: Why do pilgrims share a sanctuary? Some hypotheses by A. HOBART and T. ZARCONE

Ambiguous sacred places in the Mediterranean

1. Towards a reappraisal of ambiguity. In the footsteps of Frederick W. Hasluck by D. ALBERA

2. From the god Amon to Sufi mawlids by P.-J. LUIZARD

3. ‘Ambiguity in context’ according to Islamic thought. Bridging theory and actuality relating to saints in Islam by Y. TONAGA

Pilgrimages and sacred places in the Indo-Persian world and China

4. Chinese, Tibetan and Mongol Buddhists on Wutaishan (China) from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century by I. CHARLEUX

5. Betwixt and Between Figures of ambiguity in the Sufi cult of Lāl Shāhbāz Qalandar (Pakistan) by J. W. FREMBGEN

6. Syncretism and the superimposition of Islam on Buddhism in the Pamir Mountain cults and saint veneration by T. ZARCONE

Ambiguous sites cross-culturally

7. Monte Verita, the ‘Mountain of Truth’ in Ascona A pilgrimage site of paradoxes and contradiction by A. HOBART

8. The Seven Sleepers pilgrimage in Brittany. The ambiguity of a Christian-Muslim ‘heterotopia’ by M. PENICAUD

9 Multi-centric mythscapes. Sanctuaries and pilgrimages in north-west Amazonian Arawakan religious traditions by R. M. WRIGHT, O. Gonzalez NANEZ and C. C. XAVIER LEAL

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