Introduction: Landscapes Surveyed

Piety And Identity: Sacred Travel In The Classical World

Picture Section I Viewer and Viewed: Images and Idols

Exile And Return: Jewish Pilgrimage

Picture Section II The Sacred Site: Contestation and Co-operation

The Centre In The Desert: Muslim Pilgrimage To Mecca

Picture Section III Images of the Orient

The Gospels Embodied: Christian Pilgrimage To The Holy Land

Picture Section IV Containers of the Sacred

Geographies Of Sainthood: Christian Pilgrimage From The Middle Ages To The Present Day

Picture Section V Living Saints

Divinity Diffused: Pilgrimage In The Indian Religions

Picture Section VI Mapping the Sacred

Translating The Sacred: Patterns Of Pilgrimage In The Buddhist World

Epilogue: Landscapes Reviewed

Notes and Bibliographies

Illustration Acknowledgements

Index

Simon Coleman is Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Durham.

John Elsner is a Lecturer in Classical and Early Christian Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.