Book Review List

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S. Bhardwaj, Hindu Places of Pilgrimage in India: A Cultural Geography (University of California Press, 1973).

 

Edwin Bernbaum, Sacred Mountains of the World (University of California Press, 1998).

 

Pascale Boyer, Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought (Basic Books, 2002).

 

David Chidester and Edward Linenthal, eds., American Sacred Spaces (Indiana University Press).

 

Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest for Ancient Wisdom (Harper, 1995).

 

Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion (Harcourt, Brace and World, 1959).

 

Mircea Eliade, Patterns in Comparative Religion (University of Nebraska Press, 1996) (reprint edition).

 

Mircea Eliade, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (Bollingen, 2004).

 

Mircea Eliade, Myth and Reality (Waveland Press, 1998).

 

Anne Feldhaus, Connected Places: Region, Pilgrimage and Geographical Imagination in India (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).

 

James S. Griffith, Beliefs and Holy Places:  A Spiritual Geography of the Pimeria Alta (University of Arizona Press, 1992).

 

William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (New American Library, 1958).

 

Suzanne Kaufman, Consuming Visions: Mass Culture and the Lourdes Shrine (Cornell University Press, 2005).

 

Klara Kelley and Harris Francis, Navajo Sacred Places (Indiana University Press, 1994).

 

Alan Morinis, Sacred Journeys: The Anthropology of Pilgrimage (Greenwood Press, 1992).

 

Jacob Neusner, World Religions in America: An Introduction (Westminster John Knox Press, 2003).

 

M. L. Nolan and S. Nolan, Religious Pilgrimage in Modern Western Europe (University of North Carolina Press, 1989).

 

Phillip Sheldrake, Places for the Sacred: Place, Memory and Identity (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001).

 

Huston Smith, Forgotten Truth: The Common Vision of the World’s Religions (Harper, 1992).

 

Jonathan Sumption, The Age of Pilgrimage: The Medieval Journey to God (Hidden Spring, 2003) (reprint of the 1970 classic).

 

Yi-Fu Tuan, Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience (University of Minnesota Press, 1977).

 

Victor Turner and Edith Turner, Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture (Columbia University Press, 1978).