The resources on this page are provided to give you a head start on researching your final project. Remember that pilgrimage is a living religious phenomenon, and you are as likely to find valuable information on your subject from an encyclopedia, a scholarly journal, a personal website, or the Los Angeles Times. While your resources are limitless, always remain aware of the type of source you are drawing on: you would not engage a personal website with the same critical apparatus as an 11th-century text or a 21st-century academic journal article.
Hopefully these resources will be updated throughout the quarter: if you have any difficulties, or come across an additional helpful link or resource, please let the professor know.
The "Virtual Hajj" (at the companion site to the PBS documentary "Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet"). This is a multimedia website with detailed descriptions and depictions of hajj at Mecca.
"The Jerusalem Archaeological Park" (digital reconstructions of biblical Jerusalem, with timelines, bibliographies, and essays: very hi-tech, do not try loading on a dial-up)
"Pilgrimage in India" (a tourist company with overviews of Hindu, Jain, Sikh, Christian, and Buddhist sites of pilgrimage in India)
"Places of Peace and Power: The Sacred Site Pilgrimage of Martin Gray" (Gray is a photographer, former Buddhist monk, and former owner of travel agencies who now operates slide shows and private research into sacred sites around the world: some beautiful pictures).
"Pilgrimage in Buddhist India: Pilgrims Guide, Buddhist Holy Sites" (from the image-rich and brightly informative Buddhanet, ostensibly for Buddhists, but very explanatory)
"Bibliography of Sacred Sites: List of Sources by Subject Area" (from Martin Gray's "Sacred Sites" website)
"Bibliography of Sacred Sites: Alphabetical List" (from Martin Gray's "Sacred Sites" website)
"Places of Secret Prayer: Pilgrimage to Twelve Sacred Places in Alabama" (Despite the extremely specific page title, the "back" pages of this site contain useful bibliographies and links)
Rodney Frey's "Sacred Journey" website bibliography (designed for an introductory course in religious studies, contains a lot of useful bibliography and resources about various religious traditions, sacred spaces, and pilgrimage)
General
This open-source on-line encyclopedia is remarkably useful (be sure always to scroll down to the end of an entry and determine the source of the information, however).
Scriptures
A digitized collection of many sacred documents venerated in religious traditions.
A digitized and searchable index of the Jewish and Christian Bibles.
The Yusuf Ali translation of the Qur'an (for more Qur'an resources, including search engines and introductions, click here.)
Judaism
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An online "encyclopedia" of Jewish information and "frequently asked questions,"
written from a traditional (orthodox) perspective.
Internet
Jewish History Sourcebook
Collection of links, primary documents, images, media resources
Maps and Timeline of Jewish history
Some background materials from the course website of RLST 7.
Christianity
An introductory website for "non-Christians" written from a Protestant, but not missionary or fundamental, point of view.
Virtual Religion Index: Christianity
A set of links (some introductory, some more technical or specific); a very good place to start if terms or ideas or references need clarification.
Maps and Timeline of Christian history
Some background materials from the course website for RLST 7.
Islam
Internet Islamic History Sourcebook
Collection of links, primary documents, images, media resources.
Companion site to a PBS documentary on the premodern politics of Islam.
Companion site to another PBS documentary on issues in modern Islam.
Maps and Timeline of Islamic history
Some background materials from the course website for RLST 7.
Religions of India
Virtual Religion Index: Hindu Studies
A set of links (some introductory, some more technical or specific); a very good place to start if terms or ideas or references need clarification.
Colorado State overview of Jain history, with hyperlinks articles on significant persons and terms (also useful: the website's page of links)
An internal explanation of Sikhism ("the youngest of the World Religions").
Buddhism
Virtual Religion Index: Buddhist Studies
A set of links (some introductory, some more technical or specific); a very good place to start if terms or ideas or references need clarification.
"Timeline of Buddhist History"
From the action-packed Buddhanet, an overview of major developments (with some hyperlinks) and movements of Buddhism throughout Asia and beyond (a Flash version is found here; it's pretty much the same as the HTML version, only, well, flashier).
You can use these databases to search for articles and essays in popular and academic publications. Most of these databases can only be accessed from a UCR computer. This list represents a handful of the resources available to do your research: be sure to skim through the full (and growing!) list of UCR databases at least once before you graduate. (note: Links to databases have been removed from the archived version of this website.)
Arts & Humanities Citiation Index
Find out who cites the Piacenza Pilgrim or "Monkey," or Diana Eck's book on Banaras; you can also cross-reference by subject.
JSTOR: The scholarly journal archive
An important resource that archives full-text versions of articles from a variety of academic journals: searchable by subject or by journal.
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
This database allows you to search magazines and newspapers from around the world and retrieve full-text articles. Indispensible for research on contemporary topics!
Scotty's older brother: The online database of most California university libraries, allows you to find books we don't have and request them through interlibrary loan: often they come within the week.
Religion Index new!
UCR has recently acquired this invaluable database, which allows you to search thousands of religious studies journal and collections of essays, some as far back as 1890. Begin your search here!
Reference Works available at Rivera Library
Encyclopedia of Religion
HarperCollins Dictionary of Religion
The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Glossary of Technical Terms for the Academic Study of Religion
You can also consult with the reference librarians at Rivera, who are happy to help. You can start [link removed].
Periodicals in Rivera Library
Journal of Ritual Studies
Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Religious Studies
The Journal of Religion
Religion
The Journal of Asian Studies
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Journal of Islamic Studies
... and many more
Books (* = available through Rivera Library)
* Richard Barber, Pilgrimages (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1991).
* F.E. Peters, Jerusalem: The Holy City in the Eyes of Chroniclers, Visitors, Pilgrims, and Prophets from the Days of Abraham to the Beginnings of Modern Times (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985).
* F.E. Peters, The Hajj : the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca and the holy places (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994).
* F.E. Peters, Mecca : a literary history of the Muslim Holy Land (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994).
* F.E. Peters, Jerusalem and Mecca : the typology of the holy city in the Near East (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986).
* Michael Wolfe, One thousand roads to Mecca : ten centuries of travelers writing about the Muslim pilgrimage (New York: Grove Press,1997).
* Hunt Janin, Four paths to Jerusalem : Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and secular pilgrimages, 1000 BCE to 2001 CE (Jefferson, N.C.: MacFarland & Co, 2002).
* E.B. Havell, Benares, the sacred city; sketches of Hindu life and religion (London: Blackie and Son, 1905).
* Raghubir Singh, Banaras : sacred city of India (photography book) (New York: Thames & Hudson, 1987).
* David E. Long, The Hajj today : a survey of the contemporary Makkah pilgrimage (Albany: SUNY Press, 1978).
*Ann Parker, Hajj paintings : folk art of the great pilgrimage (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian, 1995).
* Dale Eickelman and James Piscatori, eds. Muslim travellers : pilgrimage, migration, and the religious imagination (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990).
Sabita Acharya, Pilgrimage in Indian civilization (New Delhi : Manak Publications, 1997).
Brij Tankha, Buddhist Pilgrimage (New Delhi : Lustre Press, 1997).
Duncan Forbes, The Buddhist Pilgrimage (Delhi : Motilal Banarasidass Publishers, 1999).
* Georgia Frank, Georgia, The Memory of the Eyes: Pilgrims to Living Saints in Christian Late Antiqutiy (Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000).
Harbison, Peter. Pilgrimage in Ireland : the monuments and the people (Syracuse : Syracuse University Press, 1992).
David Frankfurter, ed. Pilgrimage and holy space in late antique Egypt (Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1998).
Ian Reader and Tony Walter, eds. Pilgrimage in popular culture (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan, 1993).
* Susan Naquin and Chün-fang Yü, Pilgrims and sacred sites in China (Berkeley : University of California Press, 1992).
Ed Readicker-Henderson, The traveler's guide to Japanese pilgrimages (New York : Weatherhill, 1995).
Joseph Shadur, Young travelers to Jerusalem : an annotated survey of American and English juvenile literature on the Holy Land, 1785-1940 (Ramat Gan : Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies, Bar Ilan University ; So. Deerfield, MA : U.S. distribution, Schoen Books, 1999).
* Lester Irwin Vogel, To see a promised land : Americans and the Holy Land in the nineteenth century (University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993).
* William H. Swatos, Jr., and Luigi Tomasi, eds. From medieval pilgrimage to religious tourism : the social and cultural economics of piety (Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002).
Muni Lalitaprabhasagara, World renowned Jain pilgrimages : reverence and art (Jaipur : Prakrit Bharti Academy ; Calcutta : Jit-Yasha Foundation, 2000).
Otto F.A. Meinardus, Coptic saints and pilgrimages (Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2002)
