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Russian Hajj
In the late nineteenth century, as a consequence of imperial conquest and a mobility revolution, Russia became a crossroads of the hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. The first book in any language on the hajj under tsarist and Soviet rule, Russian Hajj tells the story of how tsarist officials struggled to control and co-opt Russia's mass hajj traffic, seeing it as not only a liability but also an opportunity. To support the hajj as a matter of state surveillance and control was controversial, given the preeminent position of the Orthodox Church. But nor could the hajj be ignored, or banned, due to Russia's policy of toleration of Islam. As a cross-border, migratory phenomenon, the hajj stoked officials' fears of infectious disease, Islamic revolt, and interethnic conflict, but Eileen Kane innovatively argues that it also generated new thinking within the government about the utility of the empire's Muslims and their global networks.
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Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity
This book is an innovative collection of seventeen essays by leading scholars of ancient religion on aspects of pilgrimage in Greek and Roman and Early Christian Antiquity. The period covered is roughly from 500BC till 400AD, and the types of pilgrimage studied is very broad, ranging from state delegations that are more or less politically motivated to the journeys of individuals interested in intellectually or spiritual enlightenment. Essays are arranged in three sections: Part 1 (‘Classical and Hellenistic Pilgrimage’) comprises six essays, dealing with aspects of Greek state-pilgrimage (‘theōria’), as well as the representation of pilgrimage in literature and philosophy; Part II (‘Pilgrimage in the Roman Empire’) contains seven essays dealing with topics such as healing pilgrimage, cultural pilgrimage by elites and pilgrimage in oriental cults; finally Part III (‘Jewish and Christian Pilgrimage’) comprises four essays dealing with inter alia, Jewish and Christian pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and Christian pilgrimage in Egypt in Late Antiquity. The essays are preceded by an Introduction in which the editors discuss the appropriateness of the term ‘pilgrimage’ to this period, arguing against scholars who have suggested that the term should not be used when dealing with polytheism; they also set out a typology of twenty forms of pilgrimage attested in this period.
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The Hajj : pilgrimage in Islam
\"Every year hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from all over the world converge on Mecca and its precincts to perform the rituals associated with the Hajj and have been doing so since the seventh century. In this volume, scholars from a range of fields-- including history, religion, anthropology, and literature-- together tell the story of the Hajj and explain its significance as one of the key events in the Muslim religious calendar.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Managing Congestion and Service Location at the Hajj Using Gis and Spatial Modelling
Crowd management techniques have become a major concern for decision makers at major events. In this research, the application of a Location-Allocation Model and an Agent Based Model is used to locate services in an optimal fashion at the religious festival in Mina and to explore whether or not these service locations have any implications for pilgrims' movement across the Mina road network. The first focus is on producing different demand layers within the location-allocation model (LAM), ultimately producing a dynamic layer which can represent pilgrims' movement across Mina networks more realistically, in turn contributing to the allocation of different services such as health services and civil defence centres at different times of the day. It is argued that taking time into account is important for planning services more effectively throughout the festival. Second, we well focus specifically on the use of an agent-based model ( ABM) to look at the dynamics of crowd movements along the most congested routes and to explore how much congestion is 'acceptable'. To define the 'acceptable' term here, we will use Fruin's LOS category breakdown, which has become a standard tool for interpreting crowd congestion. Different scenarios in the analysis using both LAM and ABM will be explored to optimise services provision taking into account the safety of crowd moving around these services. From a planning point of view, the use of ABM is vital to support optimisation using LAM. ABM is a very important tool for investigating the appropriateness of a specific location for the centres or the roads themselves The results indicate how, decision makers should take both the results from LAM and ABM, in an integrated fashion, to improve pilgrims' accessibility and safety while they are performing their ritual in Mina city and Mashaer.
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The selected Canterbury tales : a new verse translation
A vivid, lively, and readable translation of the most famous work of England's premier medieval poet. Preserving Chaucer's rhyme and meter and faithfully articulating his poetic voice, Fisher makes Chaucer's tales accessible to a contemporary ear.
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Manuscripts and Travellers
This study is based on a manuscript which was carried by a Chinese monk through the monasteries of the Hexi corridor, as part of his pilgrimage from Wutaishan to India. The manuscript has been created as a composite object from three separate documents, with Chinese and Tibetan texts on them. Included is a series of Tibetan letters of introduction addressed to the heads of monasteries along the route, functioning as a passport when passing through the region. The manuscript dates to the late 960s, coinciding with the large pilgrimage movement during the reign of Emperor Taizu of the Northern Song recorded in transmitted sources. Therefore, it is very likely that this is a unique contemporary testimony of the movement, of which our pilgrim was also part. Complementing extant historical sources, the manuscript provides evidence for the high degree of ethnic, cultural and linguistic diversity in Western China during this period.
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Walking Where Jesus Walked
Since the 1950s, millions of American Christians have traveled to the Holy Land to visit places in Israel and the Palestinian territories associated with Jesuss life and death. Why do these pilgrims choose to journey halfway around the world? How do they react to what they encounter, and how do they understand the trip upon return? This book places the answers to these questions into the context of broad historical trends, analyzing how the growth of mass-market evangelical and Catholic pilgrimage relates to changes in American Christian theology and culture over the last sixty years, including shifts in Jewish-Christian relations, the growth of small group spirituality, and the development of a Christian leisure industry.Drawing on five years of research with pilgrims before, during and after their trips,Walking Where Jesus Walkedoffers a lived religion approach that explores the trips hybrid nature for pilgrims themselves: both ordinarytied to their everyday role as the familys ritual specialists, and extraordinarysince they leave home in a dramatic way, often for the first time. Their experiences illuminate key tensions in contemporary US Christianity between material evidence and transcendent divinity, commoditization and religious authority, domestic relationships and global experience.Hillary Kaell crafts the first in-depth study of the cultural and religious significance of American Holy Land pilgrimage after 1948. The result sheds light on how Christian pilgrims, especially women, make sense of their experience in Israel-Palestine, offering an important complement to top-down approaches in studies of Christian Zionism and foreign policy.
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