The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred Ground

by Rosemary Mahoney

Hardcover, 2003

Status

Available

Call number

291.3

Tags

Comparative and Western Religion, Pilgrimage, Ethnography, Travel, Walsingham, Lourdes, El Camino de Santiago, Varanasi, Holy Land, Jerusalem, Nazareth, Sea of Galilee, Golan Hights, Syria, Bethlehem, St. Patrick's Purgatory, Station Island, Lough Derg, Spiritual Autobiography

Genres

Collection

Don

Publication

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2003), Edition: First Edition, Hardcover, 416 pages

Description

The author explores the meaning and practice of religious pilgrimage as she recreates the Irish Catholic pilgrimage to Station Island, visits to holy sites in Israel, the Hindu pilgrimage to Varanasi, and a trip to Lourdes, among others.

Subjects

Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
Pilgrims and pilgrimages

Language

English

Original publication date

2003

Physical description

416 p.; 9.4 inches

ISBN

0618022627 / 9780618022625

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