Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1972. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, MA, 2004. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 100-108).

Under the new Vision 2030 national transformation plan, the kingdom of Saudi Arabia seeks to increase number of annual pilgrims from eight million to thirty million. If oil has certain limits, then pilgrimage is framed as lasting “forever.” But this exuberant claim of “forever” belies a more subtle transformation unfolding at the level of knowledge, technology, and hospitality as Mecca and its crowds are made and re-made into a resource for a national economy. This dissertation examines the Saudi state’s efforts to manage, and ultimately intensify and optimize Mecca’s pilgrimage through new sciences and technologies of crowd management, logistics, and secular hospitality. I demonstrate how these new forms of knowledge production operate in tension with older and decidedly more Islamic ways of knowing, managing, and belonging in the holy city. Instead of approaching religious knowledge and secular knowledge as discrete spheres, my research explores their entanglements and aporias across a range of techno-political practices: navigation, hospitality, urban planning, systems thinking, crowd management, and optimization. Ultimately, I explore how in this moment of ritual intensity, the cosmopolitan logics of the holy city come to be blunted.

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Space perceived and experienced through movement presents an interesting array of imagery which blends together to form a comprehensive whole. My thesis explores this dimension of spatial complexity through the public ritual of pilgrimage. This profound and deeply significant human activity connects the individual places to form an integrated sacred network. The practice of pilgrimage has developed over centuries across the globe and continues to grow and influence a huge cross section of society to come together and move en-masse towards religious centres and personal enlightenment. Public spaces demand a simultaneous co-existence of people, activities and their setting. The phenomenon of pilgrimage is central to the public realm. Its study involves an intricate layering of beliefs, customs, traditions and religion which collectively govern the people-space relationship. The transformation of a space to a place, from static to dynamic, from passive to active occurs during this activity, maintaining the traditional usage while simultaneously evolving as a product of interaction between people, rituals and spaces. In this thesis, I examine the experiential shaping of space which occurs through pilgrims' activities and their impacts on the given urban and architectural conditions. The research is based on my study of the Alandi-Pandharpur Pilgrimage in India. It is an outcome of my participation in the ritual as, both, an architect and a pilgrim. I focus on the existing public spaces and their spontaneous response to the unplanned activity of the Pilgrimage. The spatial experience transcends the criteria of aesthetics and functionality of a public space to a deeper exploration of human characteristics and convictions. From this perspective, the thesis considers the broader role of designed public spaces, the extent of inclusion of community rituals and their significance in the shaping of built environment.

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Space perceived and experienced through movement presents an interesting array of imagery which blends together to form a comprehensive whole. My thesis explores this dimension of spatial complexity through the public ritual of pilgrimage. This profound and deeply significant human activity connects the individual places to form an integrated sacred network. The practice of pilgrimage has developed over centuries across the globe and continues to grow and influence a huge cross section of society to come together and move en-masse towards religious centres and personal enlightenment. Public spaces demand a simultaneous co-existence of people, activities and their setting. The phenomenon of pilgrimage is central to the public realm. Its study involves an intricate layering of beliefs, customs, traditions and religion which collectively govern the people-space relationship. The transformation of a space to a place, from static to dynamic, from passive to active occurs during this activity, maintaining the traditional usage while simultaneously evolving as a product of interaction between people, rituals and spaces. In this thesis, I examine the experiential shaping of space which occurs through pilgrims' activities and their impacts on the given urban and architectural conditions. The research is based on my study of the Alandi-Pandharpur Pilgrimage in India. It is an outcome of my participation in the ritual as, both, an architect and a pilgrim. I focus on the existing public spaces and their spontaneous response to the unplanned activity of the Pilgrimage. The spatial experience transcends the criteria of aesthetics and functionality of a public space to a deeper exploration of human characteristics and convictions. From this perspective, the thesis considers the broader role of designed public spaces, the extent of inclusion of community rituals and their significance in the shaping of built environment.

Thesis (M.S.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of Geography. / Electronic thesis. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 114-118). Also available in print ed.

Esta dissertação trata da História do Padre Cícero, que viveu entre 1844 e 1934 no Ceará. Juazeiro foi o lugarejo para onde foi como Padre, permanecendo aí até a sua morte. Apesar de ter construído a Igreja Matriz de Nossa Senhora das Dores nunca foi seu vigário. Sua presença teria sido a de um pastor dedicado ao rebanho, justamente naquilo que a Igreja lhe pedia, não fosse o Milagre da hóstia ensangüentada na boca da beata Maria de Araújo. Este fato haveria de transtornar a vida de Padre Cícero e em conseqüência disso transformou Juazeiro na Cidade Santa, que atrai multidões de Romeiros vindos de toda parte. Padre Cícero viu-se então envolvido em muitos conflitos. Sempre alvo de muitas incompreensões, foi tido como anátema pela Igreja. Na prática, foi excomungado, apesar de não ter tomado conhecimento do documento de excomunhão chegado para ele. Defendido e condenado ao mesmo tempo por muitos, foram, no entanto, os romeiros que sustentaram essa história de Padre Cícero e do Juazeiro com muita fidelidade e resistência pacífica. O desejo de reabilitação histórica, pastoral e eclesial cresceu dentro da própria Igreja Católica. De forma oficial, a pedido do Vaticano e coordenado pelo seu Bispo diocesano, Dom Fernando Panico, abre-se o processo de reabilitação histórica de Padre Cícero. Buscar as razões que proporcionaram a mudança do anátema ao acolhimento pastoral foi o grande objetivo de nossa pesquisa / This dissertation treats of Father Cícero's History, who lived between 1844 and 1934, in Ceará. Juazeiro was the village where he was a Priest, staying there until his your death. He built the church of Our Lady of the Pains, without, however, being the pastor. His presence would have been the one of a shepherd dedicated to the flock, exactly what the Church asked him, don't root the "Miracle" of the Host bloody in the bigot's mouth of the pious Maria de Araújo. This fact would transform Father Ciceros life and subsequently make Juazeiro, into the Holly City, that attracts crowds of Pilgrims, who came from everywhere. Father Cícero saw himself, then, involved in many conflicts. Always missunderstood he was seen as a curse by the Church. In practice, he was "excommunicated ", however, he was not aware of any formal excommunication. Simultaneously protected and condemned by many, it was the pilgrims however, who sustained the favoravle reputation of Father Cícero and Juazeiro, by fidelity and peaceful resistance. The desire of historical rehabilitation, both pastoral and ecclesiastical grew inside the Catholic Church. In an official way, the Vaticans request, coordinated by the diocesan Bishop, Dom Fernando Panico, started the process of historical rehabilitation of Father Cícero. Looking for the reasons that reasons that motivated the change of the "curse into the pastoral reception, was the major objective of our research

Orientador: Ronaldo Rômulo Machado de Almeida / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-27T06:17:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Godoy_AdrianoSantos_M.pdf: 7504733 bytes, checksum: 8034ad5359fce1c3259df6646549a9fc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: Aparecida/SP é uma cidade-santuário conhecida por sediar a Basílica de Nossa Senhora Aparecida, e por ser um centro comercial. A Imagem Aparecida, em todos os casos, é o seu grande referencial. Etnograficamente ela não pode ser definida apenas pela religião, pela economia ou pela política porque as três categorias lhes são insuficientes. Aparecida é um nome polivalente e essa dissertação tem por objetivo explorar as potências antropológicas de seus espaços, suas imagens e seus sentidos / Abstract: Located in the state of São Paulo ¿ Brazil, the city of Aparecida is famous not only for its catholic Basilic of Our Lady Aparecida, but also for its great commercial importance. In any case, the main reference to the city remains the "Aparecida Image" ¿ a famous clay sculpture found in a river. On an ethnographic point of view, it is insufficient to define it based only on Religion, Economics or Politics. Aparecida has a multivalent name, and therefore this dissertation has the objective to explore all the anthropological potencies of this spaces, images and meanings / Mestrado / Antropologia Social / Mestre em Antropologia Social