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Holy Places

How Pilgrimage Changed the World

Kathryn Hurlock author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Profile Books Ltd

Publishing:6th Mar '25

£22.00

This title is due to be published on 6th March, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

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An exploration of pilgrimage, through nineteen breath-taking sights across the globe

This year, as they have for millennia, many people around the world will set out on pilgrimages. But these are not only journeys of personal and spiritual devotion - they are also political acts, affirmations of identity and engagements with deep-rooted historical narratives. Kathryn Hurlock follows the trail of pilgrimage through nineteen sacred sites - from the temples of Jerusalem to the banks of the Ganges, by way of Iona, Lourdes, Amritsar and Buenos Aires - revealing the many ways in which this ancient practice has shaped our religions and our world. Pilgrimages have transformed the fates of cities, anointed dynasties, provided guidance in hard times and driven progress in good. Filled with fascinating insights, Holy Places unveils the complex histories and contemporary endurance of one of our most fundamental human urges.

In Holy Places, Kathryn Hurlock luminously sets pilgrimage in a global context, describing nineteen pilgrimage centres in every continent, and explaining the universal attraction of journeying from one's everyday setting to a distant and numinous place -- John Barton, author * A History of the Bible: A Book and Its Faiths *

ISBN: 9781800817432

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464 pages

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