Places in Motion by Jacob N. KinnardISBN: 9780199359660
Publication Date: 2014-07-28
Jacob Kinnard offers an in-depth examination of the complex dynamics of religiously charged places. Focusing on several important shared and contested pilgrimage places - Ground Zero and Devils Tower in the United States, Ayodhya and Bodhgaya in India, Karbala in Iraq - he poses a number ofcrucial questions. What and who has made these sites important, and why? How are they shared, and how and why are they contested?