Perceptual Pilgrimages

Problems of pilgrimages.

Making Pilgrimages, Meaning and Practice in Shikoku

Intellectual Pilgrimages and Local Norms in Fashioning Indonesian Islam

Muslims living in the Indonesian archipelago have long placed considerable importance on their travels to and communications with what they saw as intellectual centers for the study of Islam. I trace some of the effects of these “intellectual pilgrimages” to Mecca, Cairo, and elsewhere on Indonesian deliberations about Islam, particularly concerning Islamic law. I argue that these references to...

Israeli Youth Pilgrimages to Poland: Rationale and Polemics

whom are third-generation Israelis, have participated in school delegations that traveled to Poland to visit Holocaust sites. These school journeys visit Jewish sites and death camps, as part of a broad-scale project that was initiated in 1988. Over the years, the number of participants has grown steadily and by the end of 2008, 300,000 youngsters visited Poland under the aegis of this project ...

Rereading the Role of Visual-Perceptual Elements of Historic Context Passages of Yazd to Organize Citizens’ Perceptual System

Paths located in ancient districts are flexible and lively places to understand man’s position in the environment and his/her connection with the past. Developing the sense of belonging to place in neighborhoods of the old texture of Yazd by people’s interaction with the paths can be effective in managing and reforming the affairs of neighborhoods, residential environment and organizing neighbo...