Guests of God

Guests of God
Author: Robert Bianchi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2008-03-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0199711836

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Each year, about two million pilgrims from over 100 countries converge on the Islamic holy city of Mecca for the hajj. While the hajj is first and foremost a religious festival, it is also very much a political event. No government can resist the temptation to manipulate the hajj for political and economic gain. Every large Muslim state has developed a comprehensive hajj policy and a powerful bureaucracy to enforce it. The Muslim world's leading multinational organization, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, has established the first international regime explicitly devoted to pilgrimage. Yet, Robert Bianchi argues, no secular or religious authority - national or international - can really control the hajj. State-sponsored pilgrimage management consistently backfires, giving government opponents valuable ammunition and allowing them to manipulate the symbols and controversies of the hajj to their own ends. Bianchi has been researching the hajj for over ten years and draws on interviews with and data from hajj directors in five Muslim countries (Pakistan, Malaysia, Turkey, Indonesia, and Nigeria), statistics from Saudi Arabian hajj authorities, as well as his personal experience as a pilgrim. The result is the most complete picture of the hajj available anywhere, and a wide-ranging work on Islam, politics, and power.

Guests of God : Pilgrimage and Politics in the Islamic World

Guests of God : Pilgrimage and Politics in the Islamic World
Author: Robert R. Bianchi Formerly Associate Professor of Political Science University of Chicago
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2004-09-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0198038194

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Each year, more than two million pilgrims from over 100 countries converge on the holy city of Mecca to reenact the ritual dramas that Muslims have been performing for centuries. Making the hajj is one of the most important duties in the life of a Muslim. The pilgrimage-and its impact on international politics-is enormous and growing every year, yet Westerners know virtually nothing about it. What is the hajj and what does it mean? Who are the hajjis? What do they do and say in Mecca and how do they interpret their experiences? Who runs the hajj and what are their political objectives? How does the hajj encourage international cooperation among Muslims and can it also promote harmony between Islam and the West? In Guests of God, Robert R. Bianchi seeks to answer these and many other questions. While it is first and foremost a religious festival, he shows, the hajj is also very much a political event. The Muslim world's leading multinational organization, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, has established the first international regime explicitly devoted to pilgrimage. Every large Muslim nation has developed a comprehensive hajj policy and a powerful bureaucracy to enforce it. Yet, Bianchi argues, no authority- secular or religious, national or international-can really control the hajj. Pilgrims believe that they are entitled to travel freely to Mecca as "Guests of God"-not as guests of any nation or organization that might wish to restrict or profit from their efforts to fulfill a fundamental religious obligation. Drawing on his personal experience as a pilgrim and a wealth of data gathered over the course of ten years of research, Bianchi has produced a fascinating look at the hajj filled with personal, candid stories from political and religious leaders and hajjis from all walks of life. A wide-ranging study of Islam, politics, and power, Guests of God is the most complete picture of the hajj available anywhere.

God's Guest List

God's Guest List
Author: Debbie Macomber
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2011-07-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1451611668

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Reveals the secrets to welcoming people into one's life who will be positive influences on values and character, and how those with negative influence have also helped through prompting strength and resilience.

Guests of God

Guests of God
Author: Monika K. Hellwig
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 123
Release: 1999
Genre: Christian life
ISBN: 1616433353

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The Guests of God

The Guests of God
Author: Meridian International Communications
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1991
Genre: Conversion
ISBN:

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God's Guests

God's Guests
Author: Heidi Fleming
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 69
Release: 2011-12-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1465309837

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Heidi Fleming’s career has spanned many professions related to health and health care. She has been involved with church hospitality within the local church as well as on the regional level. She loves Jesus and loves people. Her top three spiritual gifts are faith, service, and helps. When all is said and done, she wants to do enough and say enough to make the world a little better than when she arrived.

The Guests of God

The Guests of God
Author: George Jackson (B.A.)
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1926
Genre:
ISBN:

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Unexpected Guests at God’s Banquet

Unexpected Guests at God’s Banquet
Author: Brett Webb-Mitchell
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2009-03-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1725225409

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Flowing from Jesus's parable of the banquest feast, this practical and challenging call to a more inclusive church shows why disabled people--the mentally retarded, the physically impaired, and others--must be part of congregational life, along with how, where, and what to do. Essential for parents, teachers, and the disabled themselves.

Guests at God's Wedding

Guests at God's Wedding
Author: Tracy Pintchman
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2005-08-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780791465950

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A fascinating look at women’s rituals honoring the god Krishna.

Guest is God

Guest is God
Author: Drew Thomases
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2019-10-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 019088357X

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Every year, the Indian pilgrimage town of Pushkar sees its population of 20,000 swell by two million visitors. Since the 1970s, Pushkar, which is located about 250 miles southwest of the capital of New Delhi, has received considerable attention from international tourists. Originally hippies and backpackers, today's visitors now come from a wide range of social positions. To locals, though, Pushkar is more than just a gathering place for pilgrims and tourists: it is where Brahma, the creator god, made his home; it is where Hindus should feel blessed to stay, if only for a short time; and it is where locals would feel lucky to be reborn, if only as a pigeon. In short, it is their paradise. But even paradise needs upkeep. In Guest is God, Drew Thomases uses ethnographic fieldwork to explore the massive enterprise of building heaven on earth. The articulation of sacred space necessarily works alongside economic changes brought on by tourism and globalization. Here the contours of what actually constitutes paradise are redrawn by developments in, and the agents of, tourism. And as paradise is made and remade, people in Pushkar help to create a brand of Hindu religion that is tailored to its local surroundings while also engaging global ideas. The goal, then, becomes to show how religion and tourism can be mutually constitutive.