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Autore |
Stanford Peter <1961-> |
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Titolo |
The extra mile : a twenty-first-century pilgrimage / / Peter Stanford |
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London, England : , : Bloomsbury, , [2010] |
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©2010 |
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1-4411-9143-7 |
1-4411-1207-3 |
9786612871450 |
1-282-87145-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (218 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Pilgrims and pilgrimages - History |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Introduction; 1 Stonehenge; 2 Bardsey Island; 3 The Wells of Derbyshire; 4 Walsingham; 5 Holywell; 6 Iona; 7 Lindisfarne; 8 Glastonbury; Acknowledgements |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Writer, journalist and broadcaster Peter Stanford makes a modern-day pilgrimage around some of the most ancient religious sites in Britain, to take the spiritual temperature of an age often described as secular and sceptical. Each of his chosen destinations has a long association with belief and an intriguing, controversial and often colourful story. Do the present-day pilgrims he meets en route go simply in search of that history, or does their journey have a deeper significance, a reaction to the unholy times in which we live now? And are their numbers growing as more conventional church-g |
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