Edited by Angela HOBART and Thierry ZARCONE
In association with
The Centro Incontri Umani, Ascona
Colour Paperback,
ISBN 978-1-907774-77-5,
£25.00 (GBP), $40.00 (USD)
e-BookISBN 978-1-907774-99-7
Sean Kingston Publishing – 2 Hermitage Cottages – Canon Pyon
Herefordshire HR4 8NN, UK
Contents
Introduction: Why do pilgrims share a sanctuary? Some hypotheses by A. HOBART and T. ZARCONE
Ambiguous sacred places in the Mediterranean
Towards a reappraisal of ambiguity. In the footsteps of Frederick W. Hasluck by D. ALBERA
From the god Amon to Sufi mawlids by P.-J. LUIZARD
‘Ambiguity in context’ according to Islamic thought. Bridging theory and actuality relating to saints in Islam by Y. TONAGA
Pilgrimages and sacred places in the Indo-Persian world and China
Chinese, Tibetan and Mongol Buddhists on Wutaishan (China) from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century by I. CHARLEUX
Betwixt and Between Figures of ambiguity in the Sufi cult of Lāl Shāhbāz Qalandar (Pakistan) by J. W. FREMBGEN
Syncretism and the superimposition of Islam on Buddhism in the Pamir Mountain cults and saint veneration by T. ZARCONE
Ambiguous sites cross-culturally
Monte Verita, the ‘Mountain of Truth’ in Ascona A pilgrimage site of paradoxes and contradiction by A. HOBART
The Seven Sleepers pilgrimage in Brittany. The ambiguity of a Christian-Muslim ‘heterotopia’ by M. PENICAUD
Multi-centric mythscapes. Sanctuaries and pilgrimages in north-west Amazonian Arawakan religious traditions by R. M. WRIGHT, O. Gonzalez NANEZ and C. C. XAVIER LEAL
