The Geographic Contribution to Studies of Pilgrimage: Introduction to Sacred Places, Sacred Spaces

Authors

Robert Stoddard, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
Alan Morinis, The Mussar Institute, Vancouver, BC

Date of this Version

1997

Comments

Published in Sacred Places, Sacred Spaces: The Geography of Pilgrimages, edited by Robert H. Stoddard and Alan Morinis, 1997. Geoscience and Man, vol. 34, pp. ix-xi. Dept. of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70893-6010.

Abstract

The religions of humankind, from the great traditions of Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, and Hinduism, to sectarian cults arid tribal religions, have all singled out spatial referents as places that embody or enshrine the religious ideals of the culture. These sacred referents and the complex web of logistics, demographics, economics, and related activities that associate with the visitation patterns to such sacred places are the subject of this book.