TY - CHAP
T1 - Pilgrimage as Muslim religious commemoration
T2 - The case of Ajvatovica in Bosnia-Hercegovina
AU - Kuehn, Sara
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 selection and editorial matter, Ingvild Flaskerud and Richard J. Natvig; individual chapters, the contributors.
Copyright:
Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - The polymorphic phenomenon of Ajvatovica, allegedly the most attended Muslim gathering in Europe, provides a stage for the selection and propagation of the familiar narrative of the pilgrimage with the perspicuous tendency to demythologize it, although not without introducing new mythic elements meant to elevate contemporary developments to the level of a salvation-historical development. This chapter attempts to conceptualize the (re)creation of the religio-cultural event in its historical and cultural context and to point to its iconographic interpretation with a view to its symbolic and religious value as well as its significance for the cultural identity and political imagination of the Bosnian people.
AB - The polymorphic phenomenon of Ajvatovica, allegedly the most attended Muslim gathering in Europe, provides a stage for the selection and propagation of the familiar narrative of the pilgrimage with the perspicuous tendency to demythologize it, although not without introducing new mythic elements meant to elevate contemporary developments to the level of a salvation-historical development. This chapter attempts to conceptualize the (re)creation of the religio-cultural event in its historical and cultural context and to point to its iconographic interpretation with a view to its symbolic and religious value as well as its significance for the cultural identity and political imagination of the Bosnian people.
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U2 - 10.4324/9781315597089
DO - 10.4324/9781315597089
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85044886323
SN - 9781472447470
T3 - Routledge Studies in Pilgrimage, Religious Travel and Tourism
SP - 98
EP - 117
BT - Muslim Pilgrimage in Europe
PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis
CY - London
ER -