The Seductions of Pilgrimage: Sacred Journeys Afar and Astray in the Western Religious Tradition

by David Picard

Book Overview

The Seductions of Pilgrimage focuses on the varied discursive, imaginative, and practical mechanisms of seduction that draw individual pilgrims to a pilgrimage site; the objects, places, and paradigms that pilgrims leave behind as they embark on their hyper-meaningful travel experience, and the often unforeseen elements that lead pilgrims off their desired course. Presenting the first comprehensive study of the role of seduction on individual pilgrims...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138546305
• ISBN13: 9781138546301
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"