Coleman and Elsner's study offers irrefutable evidence that humans the world over yearn to connect with that which is held holy in a particular place that is considered holy.
   --Zachary Karabell, Boston Book Review

In tracing sacred travels from fifth-century B.C.E. Greece to the Holy Land in the late twentieth century and from monotheistic traditions to those of Indian religions and the Buddhist world, Simon Coleman and John Elsner propose a novel journey of the mind.
   --Julia Clancy-Smith, American Historical Review

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.