Pilgrimage
In a number of Communist contries, secular pilgrimages were established as an "antidote" to religious pilgrimages, the most famous of which are:
- USSR: Mausoleum of Lenin in Red Square, Moscow
- PRC: Mausoleum of Mao Zedong in Tiananmen Square, Beijing
- Germany: Birthplace of Karl Marx, Trier
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See also
- Burial places of founders of world religions
- Category:Religious places
- Junrei
- Monastery
- Most Holy Place
- Romeria
- Pilgrim
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Notes
- ^ a b Smith, Peter (2000). "Pilgrimage". A concise encyclopedia of the Bahá'í Faith. Oxford: Oneworld Publications. p. 269. ISBN 1-85168-184-1.
- ^ The Buddha mentions these four pilgrimage sites in the Mahaparinibbana Sutta. See, for instance, Thanissaro (1998)[1] and Vajira & Story (1998)[2].
- ^ Basilica and National Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation official website
- ^ House of the Virgin Mary listing at www.Ephesus.US
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Further reading
- al-Naqar, Umar. 1972. The Pilgrimage Tradition in West Africa. Khartoum: Khartoum University Press. [includes a map 'African Pilgrimage Routes to Mecca, ca. 1300-1900']
- Coleman, Simon and John Elsner (1995), Pilgrimage: Past and Present in the World Religions. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
- Coleman, Simon & John Eade (eds) (2005), Reframing Pilgrimage. Cultures in Motion. London: Routledge.
- Jackowski, Antoni. 1998. Pielgrzymowanie [Pilgrimage]. Wroclaw: Wydawnictwo Dolnoslaskie.
- Margry, Peter Jan (ed.) (2008), Shrines and Pilgrimage in the Modern World. New Itineraries into the Sacred. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
- Sumption, Jonathan. 2002. Pilgrimage: An Image of Mediaeval Religion. London: Faber and Faber Ltd.
- Wolfe, Michael (ed.). 1997. One Thousands Roads to Mecca. New York: Grove Press.
- Zarnecki, George (1985), The Monastic World: The Contributions of The Orders. pp. 36-66, in Evans, Joan (ed.). 1985. The Flowering of the Middle Ages. London: Thames and Hudson Ltd.
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Literature
- Kerschbaum & Gattinger, Via Francigena - DVD- Documentation, of a modern pilgrimage to Rome, ISBN 3200005009, Verlag EUROVIA, Vienna 2005
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External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
- Pilgrims and Pilgrimage - An Online Teaching and Learning Resource
- Eurovia-Association for the Estblishment of European Pilgimage Routes
- The official site of the Santiago de Compostela cathedral
- How to be a pilgrim General Theory & Practice
- Catholic pilgrimages
- Buddhist Pilgrimage in India
- Buddhist Pilgrimage in Sri Lanka
- The Canadian Company of Pilgrims A non-profit group providing advice to pilgrims of the way of Saint James
- Wiki on European pilgrimages
- Pilgrim forum on the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela
- Sacred Destinations Sacred sites and pilgrimages.
- French pilgrimage routes from 1000 CE till 1500 CE
- Spanish pilgrimage routes from 900 CE till 2000 CE
- From Jerusalem to Sacred Mounts History of the nine Sacri Monti included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
- Pilgrimages and Cultural Heritage programmes in Romania, Europe
- VEDA: Holy Places
- Walking the Camino de Santiago, A Guide The Camino de Santiago has more than 100,000 pilgrims walking the various paths each year.
- Images of pilgrimages at fotolia.de (Royalty-Free)
- Italian Lakes Pilgrimage. The nine Sacro Monte of the Italian lakes were developed for pilgrims in the 15th and 16th centuries as an alternative to traveling to the holy land.
- Not for profit organisation, mapping pilgrimage routes and promoting eco-friendly travel
- Detailed accounts of pilgrimages to Santiago and Rome on horseback
- Account of pilgrimage to Nidaros (Trondheim) in Norway on Olav's Way. With useful page about kit.
- Information and Maps of the UNESCO World Heritage Registered Pilgrimage to Kumano in Japan.
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