Ritual Journeys

Ritual journeys are quite often connected to particular communities and regions.  Processions are associated with particular villages, towns, or cities; features of the landscape like sacred lakes or mountains are revered by particular ethnic groups; pilgrimage places are associated with certain territories, or with local gods and goddesses. In recent decades, many ritual journeys have been "opened up" to include participation by a wider public, so that they are no longer exclusively connected to local phenomena or traditions, but now incorporate elements of global ideologies and traditions, e.g. Hinduism and Islam. Other journeys have become more exclusive, so that their rituals are even more closely connected with particular regions, communities, or ethnic groups. We are interested in the (historical, political, cultural, economic) reasons why ritual journeys become more or less exclusive. How do inclusivity and exclusivity affect their content, and the experiences of those who make them?

 

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Ethnologie und Moderne Südasiatische Sprachen und Literaturwissenschaften
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E-Mail: Juergen.Schaflechner@uni-heidelberg.de

 

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