Valențele misionare ale pelerinajului organizat cu ocazia Kumbha-Melā
Missionary Valences of the Kumbha-Melā Pilgrimage

Summary/Abstract: The pilgrimage to holy places is one of the oldest traditions of Hinduism. Sacred places can be found all over India and attract millions of pilgrims. According to their importance these places gather pilgrims from their close vicinity or from the whole India, and their very close interconnection opens multiple perspectives for the pilgrim’s freewill. There are so many sacred places in India that we can regard thecountry as a vast holy space organized in a system of sacred centers ofpilgrimage, together with their sacred complexes. These sacred sites have developed over the millennia, not through a central authority, but through the absortion of several religious and local customs. Among these sacred places, the pilgrimage place in Allahabad at kumbha-melā has a special importance which results from its age and the fact that it gathers the largest number of pilgrims.

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