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Thursday, October 13

01-07 Pilgrimage and Place

Thursday, October 13, 8:00 am–10:00 am
Oklahoma South

This live event will not be recorded.


Chair: Amit Singh (Ambedkar University Delhi)

8:00 am
“For You to Conquer, You Need to Be Meek”: Prophets, Profit and Pilgrimage
Anika Wilson (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

8:30 am
Place, Placism, and Belief: Re-Centering Periphery in Ukraine Via Supernatural Apparitions
Mariya Lesiv (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

9:00 am
La Virgen Peregrina y la Virgen de la Morada: The Virgin of Guadalupe’s Pilgrimages and Dwellings in Salt Lake City
Jessie Riddle (Indiana University)

9:30 am
An Immortal Tree and a Pilgrimage Tradition at the Holy Confluence of Rivers: A Study of Akshay Vat and the Kumbh Consciousness
Amit Singh (Ambedkar University Delhi)

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