Chapter 2 Transnational Courting through Shakyamuni Buddha: Japanese Pilgrimage and Geographical Dowries in North India

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Introduction. Pilgrimage and Political Economy: Introduction to a Research Agenda 1
5. Chapter 1 From the Indian Ganges to a Mauritian Lake: Hindu Pilgrimage in a ‘Diasporic’ Context 21
6. Chapter 2 Transnational Courting through Shakyamuni Buddha: Japanese Pilgrimage and Geographical Dowries in North India 40
7. Chapter 3 Sufism and the Pilgrimage Market: A Political Economy of a Shrine in Southern Pakistan 59
8. Chapter 4 Allah Always Hears the Prayers of a Traveller: Nationalized Shrines and Transnational Imaginaries in Bukhara 75
9. Chapter 5 ‘Pilgrimage Capital’ and Bosnian Croat Pilgrimage Places: Bosnian Croat Pilgrimages and Transnational Ties through Time and Space 93
10. Chapter 6 Translating Catholic Pilgrimage Sites into Energy Grammar: Contested Spiritual Practices in Chartres and Vézelay 112
11. Chapter 7 A Pentecostal Shrine in Mexico: Ethnography of Migration and Pilgrimage 136
12. Chapter 8 The Paths of Saint James in Brazil: Body, Spirituality and Market 155
13. Afterword: Going beyond the Elusive Nature of Pilgrimage 173
14. Index 191