Hajj : global interactions through pilgrimage
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Mols Luitgard Eva Maria (1968-....) ; Buitelaar Maria Wilhelmina (1958-....) ; Museum Volkenkunde ;
- Editeurs : Leiden Sidestone Press ;
- Date d'édition : Cop. 2015
- ISBN : 978-90-8890-285-7
- Sujets : Pèlerinages musulmans -- Arabie saoudite -- La Mecque (Arabie saoudite), Islam
- Comprend : The Hajj and the Anthropological Study of Pilgrimage, Sacrifice, Purification and Gender in the Hajj: Personhood, Metonymy, and Ritual Transformation, Pilgrimage, Performativity, and British Muslims: Scripted and Unscripted Accounts of the Hajj and Umra, The Hajj and Politics in Contemporary Turkey and Indonesia, Islamic Reformism and Pilgrimage: The Hajj of Rashid Rida in 1916, Gifts, Souvenirs and the Hajj, Hajj from China: Social Meanings and Material Culture, The Uppsala Mecca Painting: A New Source for the Cultural Topography and Historiography for Mecca, Hajj Murals in Dakhla Oasis (Egypt), Souvenir, Testimony, and Device for Instruction: Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Printed Hajj Certificates, Appearances Belie. A Mecca-Centred World Map and a Snouck Hurgronje Photograph from the Leiden University Collections, Hajj Music from Egypt, Syria and Lebanon: Some Reflections on Songs for the Pilgrimage
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VI-244 p.-[2] p. de pl.), : Ill. en noir et en coul., couv. ill. en coul., carte, 26 cm
- Pays de publication : Pays-Bas
- Collection (notice d'ensemble) : Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, No. 43,
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Résumé
Every year, in the last month of the Islamic calendar, millions of Muslims from around the world come together in Mecca to perform the Hajj, the pilgrimage that all capable Muslims should perform at least once in their lives. In 2013, the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden organised the exhibition 'Longing for Mecca. The Pilgrim's Journey. The chapters in this volume are the outcome of the two-day symposium on the Hajj, which was held at the museum in connection to the exhibition. The central theme that runs through the book is how Hajj practices, representations of Mecca and the exchange of Hajj-related objects have changed over time. The chapters in the first part of the book discuss religious, social, and political meanings of the Hajj. Here the relationship is addressed between the significance of pilgrimage to Mecca for the religious lives of individuals and groups and the wider contexts that they are embedded in. Together, these anthropological contributions provide insights into the effects on Hajj practices and meanings for present-day Muslims caused by current dimensions of globalisation processes. The second part of the book takes material expressions of the Hajj as its starting point. It explores what Hajj-related artefacts can tell us about the import of pilgrimage in the daily lives of Muslims in the past and present. The contributions in this part of the volume point out that Mecca has always been a cosmopolitan city and the nodal point of global interactions far exceeding religious activities