Edited by Angela HOBART and Thierry ZARCONE In association with The Centro Incontri Umani,  Ascona     Colour Paperback, ISBN 978-1-907774-77-5, £25.00 (GBP), $40.00 (USD) e-BookISBN 978-1-907774-99-7   OPEN ACCESS (link)   Sean Kingston Publishing
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Contents

  Introduction: Why do pilgrims share a sanctuary? Some hypotheses by A. HOBART and T. ZARCONE   Ambiguous sacred places in the Mediterranean   Towards a reappraisal of ambiguity. In the footsteps of Frederick W. Hasluck by D. ALBERA   From the god Amon to Sufi mawlids by P.-J. LUIZARD   ‘Ambiguity in context’ according to Islamic thought. Bridging theory and actuality relating to saints in Islam by Y. TONAGA   Pilgrimages and sacred places in the Indo-Persian world and China   Chinese, Tibetan and Mongol Buddhists on Wutaishan (China) from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century by I. CHARLEUX   Betwixt and Between Figures of ambiguity in the Sufi cult of Lāl Shāhbāz Qalandar (Pakistan) by J. W. FREMBGEN   Syncretism and the superimposition of Islam on Buddhism in the Pamir Mountain cults and saint veneration by T. ZARCONE   Ambiguous sites cross-culturally   Monte Verita, the ‘Mountain of Truth’ in Ascona A pilgrimage site of paradoxes and contradiction by A. HOBART   The Seven Sleepers pilgrimage in Brittany. The ambiguity of a Christian-Muslim ‘heterotopia’ by M. PENICAUD   Multi-centric mythscapes. Sanctuaries and pilgrimages in north-west Amazonian Arawakan religious traditions by R. M. WRIGHT, O. Gonzalez NANEZ and C. C. XAVIER LEAL