Religion 133 - Pilgrimage

Institution:

Bard College

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A consideration of pilgrimage as one unifying theme in the exploration of human religiosity. As a religious arena in which multiple cultural patterns converge and shape each other, pilgrimage in its various forms has also played a significant historical role in shaping trade and commerce, geographic consciousness, centers of political power, and artistic forms. While this course regularly returns to examinations of "ritual pilgrimages"-such as the Islamic hajj toMecca and the Hindu yatra to Benares-it also investigates pilgrimage more metaphorically, by looking at literary (John Bunyan's The Pilgrim'sProgress), legendary (the Tibeto-Himalayan Buddhist kingdom of Shambhala), and visionary (the Huichol Indians' peyote quests) journeys. Works by Barbara Aziz, Joseph Kitagawa, James Preston, and Victor and Edith Turner are read as frameworks for the analyses.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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