Sacred Mobilities: Journeys of Belief and Belonging 1317060318, 9781317060314

This collection draws on the Mobilities approach to look afresh at notions of the sacred where they intersect with peopl

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Sacred Mobilities: Journeys of Belief and Belonging
1317060318, 9781317060314

Thirteen formerly homeless New Yorkers tell their life stories, describing their joys as well as torments, their broken-

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A lyrical coming-of-age memoir, "Down from the Mountaintop "chronicles a quest for belonging. Raised in northw

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The field of ‘art and religion’ is fast becoming one of the most dynamic areas of religious studies. Uniquely, “The Art

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For all its beneficial advances, our secular age has also weakened some people s ties to religious belief and affiliatio

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From Belonging to Belief presents a nuanced ethnographic study of Islam and secularism in post-Soviet Central Asia, as s

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This book presents a unique ethnographic account of material religion in the Himalayan city of Shimla. Although the moun

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This book presents a framework for a new kind of thinking about student mobilities and belonging, which foregrounds the

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How do religious emotions and national sentiment become entangled across the world? In exploring this theme, The Secular

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