Religious Journeys in India Amy Halverson

Religious Journeys in India Amy HalversonExplores how religious travel in India is transforming religious identities and self constructions. In an increasingly global world where convenient modes of travel have opened the door to international and intraregional tourism and brought together people from different religious and ethnic communities, religious journeying in India has become the site of evolving and often paradoxical forms of self construction. Through ethnographic reflections, the

and the hopes and ambitions generated by the repeated experience of leaving and returning home

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first published in 1950 by Nobel prize winner Octavio Paz

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Chapters will include Frequently Asked Questions about subjects

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The poems selected for this volume provide a sampling of the rich tradition of Marian devotion as expressed in Middle English

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whose knowledge is grounded in a deep understanding of the local records