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...

The Cholera Epidemic in Puri Town and District in July, 1902

In Puri town and district and throughout Orissa, cholera shows itself year after 37ear regularly over a defined area, and from this " infected focus" the disease invades the same bazaars and villages, leaving the greater part of the district untouched. The usual course of the disease is intimately connected with the pilgrimages. In Orissa, cholera is more 01 less endemic from January to August,...

Spiritual Health through Pilgrimage Therapy: A Qualitative Study

Background and Objectives: Going on a pilgrimage for spiritual and religious purposes is not a new phenomenon and can be considered one of the oldest tourism typologies. This form of travel is related to the task social perception, which is stronger than leisure or pleasure. The purpose of this ethnographic study was to study how spiritual well-being is achieved through pilgrimages trips. Meth...

General Secretary's Letter

US vv^1a^lmer is bringing the usual crop of conferences and pilgrimages. Some of of th , j?urneying t0 Berne in the first week of August for the Annual Meeting e World Federation for Mental Health. Others are off" to Copenhagen from I $h to f?r International Scientific Conference on Mental Deficiency, on '^-r sPeaking in Berne, and in Copenhagen Miss F. Dean is reading a short paper Con acher T...