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We Are Pilgrims Victoria Preston

We Are Pilgrims par Victoria Preston

We Are Pilgrims Victoria Preston


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We Are Pilgrims Résumé

We Are Pilgrims: Journeys in Search of Ourselves Victoria Preston

Each year, 200 million of us embark on a pilgrimage of some kind. We have been making ritual journeys for millennia, ever since our ancient ancestors followed migrating animals, coming together to hunt and celebrate. The era of setting out as a matter of survival is long gone, but the impulse to travel somewhere sacred to us remains. Victoria Preston discovers that, whether we set forth in search of solace or liberation, as an expression of gratitude or faith, journeys of meaning and purpose are always a powerful reminder that we are each part of something much greater than ourselves. From the Stone Age pilgrims of Anatolia to the present-day crowds at Glastonbury, 'We Are Pilgrims' is a quest to understand what drives this rich and varied human behaviour, unbounded by time or space, faith or identity.

We Are Pilgrims Avis

'Preston is widely read and widely travelled, and writes with considerable erudition, drawing both on learning and her own experience. But this book is as remarkable for its lyricism and the beauty of its prose as it is for the information and insights it contains.' -- Pilgrims to Rome
'Beautifully written, this book reflects on the multiple meanings and textures of pilgrimage as a literary, religious and cultural experience binding people and memory throughout history.' -- Mona Siddiqui, Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies, University of Edinburgh
'Pilgrimage is a much misunderstood human urge. It is an activity not so much of faith as of purpose: the use of the body in a ceremony of emotion, discovery and renewal, culminating in the metaphor of destination. Its appeal is for all time, to everyone, everywhere--and so is Victoria Preston's splendid book.' -- Simon Jenkins, 'Guardian' and 'Evening Standard' columnist

À propos de Victoria Preston

Victoria Preston has roamed far and wide in her thirty years advising corporate and government clients in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas. She is an associate fellow at the King's Centre for Strategic Communications, with an MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics.

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GOR011432488
9781787383036
1787383032
We Are Pilgrims: Journeys in Search of Ourselves Victoria Preston
Occasion - Très bon état
Broché
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
2020-04-09
280
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