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

by David Picard

Book Overview

The Seductions of Pilgrimage explores the simultaneously attractive and repellent, beguiling and alluring forms of seduction in pilgrimage. It 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...

• 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"