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Travel and Religion in Antiquity considers the importance of issues relating to travel for our understanding of religious and cultural life among Jews, Christians, and others in the ancient world, particularly during the Hellenistic and Roman eras. The volume is organized around five overlapping areas where religion and travel intersect: travel related to honouring deities, including travel to festivals, oracles, and healing sanctuaries; travel to communicate the efficacy of a god or the superiority of a way of life, including the diffusion of cults or movements; travel to explore and encounter foreign peoples or cultures, including descriptions of these cultures in ancient ethnographic materials; migration; and travel to engage in an occupation or vocation. With interdisciplinary contributions that cover a range of literary, epigraphic, and archeological materials, the volume sheds light on the importance of movement in connection with religious life among Greeks, Romans, Nabateans, and others, including Judeans and followers of Jesus.

Travel --- Religious aspects. --- Religious aspects --- Travel, Ancient --- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Jewish pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Voyage --- Pèlerins et pèlerinages chrétiens --- Pèlerins et pèlerinages juifs --- History --- Christianity --- Judaism --- Histoire --- Aspect religieux --- Christianisme --- Judaïsme --- Mediterranean Region --- Greece --- Méditerranée, Région de la --- Grèce --- Religious life and customs. --- Antiquities. --- Vie religieuse --- Antiquités

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This accessible study is the first critical investigation of the cult of saints among Muslims and Jews in medieval Syria and the Near East. Through case studies of saints and their devotees, discussion of the architecture of monuments, examination of devotional objects, and analysis of ideas of 'holiness', Meri depicts the practices of living religion and explores the common heritage of all three monotheistic faiths. Critical readings of a wide range of contemporary sources - travel writing, geographical works, pilgrimage guides, legal writings, historical sources, hagiography, and biography - reveal a vibrant religious culture in which the veneration of saints and pilgrimage to tombs and shrines were fundamental.

Muslim saints --- Islamic shrines --- Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Zaddikim --- Jewish pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Cult --- History --- Tombs --- Saints musulmans --- Sanctuaires musulmans --- Pèlerins et pèlerinages musulmans --- Saints juifs --- Pèlerins et pèlerinages juifs --- Moyen-orient --- Pèlerins et pèlerinages musulmans --- Pèlerins et pèlerinages juifs --- Islamic saints --- Saints, Muslim --- Sufi saints --- Saints --- Islamic pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages, Muslim --- Muslim travelers --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Jewish saints --- Tsadikim --- Tzaddikim --- Zadikim --- Hasidism --- Jewish travelers --- Pilgrim Festivals (Judaism) --- Muslim shrines --- Shrines, Islamic --- Shrines, Muslim --- Shrines --- Cult&delete& --- History. --- Culte --- Histoire --- Hasidim --- Muslim saints - Cult - Syria - History --- Islamic shrines - Syria --- Islamic shrines - Middle East --- Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages - Middle East --- Zaddikim - Tombs - Middle East --- Jewish pilgrims and pilgrimages - Middle East --- Syrie