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Ritual Journeys in South Asia: Constellations and Contestations of Mobility and Space

Ritual Journeys in South Asia: Constellations and Contestations of Mobility and Space

Bergmann, Christoph
Schaflechner, Jürgen

Paperback

Series: Routledge South Asian Religion

Asian American StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032090111
ISBN13: 9781032090115
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 30 2021
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book focuses on the ritualized forms of mobility that constitute phenomena of pilgrimage in South Asia and establishes a new analytical framework for the study of ritual journeys.

The book advances the conceptual scope of 'classical' Pilgrimage Studies and provides empirical depth through individual case studies. A key concern is the strategies of ritualization through which actors create, assemble and (re-)articulate certain modes of displacement to differentiate themselves from everyday forms of locomotion. Ritual journeys are understood as being both productive of and produced by South Asia's socio-economically uneven, politically charged and culturally variegated landscapes. From various disciplinary angles, each chapter explores how spaces and movements in space are continually created, contested and transformed through ritual journeys. By focusing on this co-production of space and mobility, the book delivers a conceptually driven and empirically grounded engagement with the diverse and changing traditions of ritual journeying in South Asia.

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