Pilgrimage to a Greek Island Shrine

In modern Greece, the festival dedicated to the "Dormition" of the Panagia ('the All-Holy One'), who is the Virgin Mary, is celebrated on 15 August. On Tinos, in the island group of the Cyclades in the Aegean Sea, this fertility- and healing-festival dedicated to the Dormition of...

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Subtitles:"Sacred Journeys 7: Pilgrimage and Beyond: Going Places, Far and Away"
Main Author: Håland, Evy Johanne (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Dublin Institute of Technology 2021
In: The international journal of religious tourism and pilgrimage
Year: 2021, Volume: 9, Issue: 2, Pages: 5-18
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Unsere Liebe Frau von Tinos (Tinos, Insel) / Miraculous icon / Pilgrimage / Mariä Himmelfahrt (Festivity) / Gender-specific role / Socioeconomic system / Religious policy
IxTheo Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
CD Christianity and Culture
KBK Europe (East)
KDF Orthodox Church
Further subjects:B Greece
B Pilgrimage
B Panagia (Virgin Mary)
B Tinos
B gendered spheres
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