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In discussing the viewpoint that pilgrimage to sacred site is a form of tourism there are certain terms that require definition: pilgrimage, sacred and tourism. The Oxford English Dictionary, (OED, 2012) defines pilgrimage as ‘a journey undertaken to a place of particular significance or interest’. It is usually as an act of religious devotion, homage and respect and those on a pilgrimage are referred to as Pilgrims. Waterhouse (2009, p199) defines religion as ‘a system of practices, institutions and beliefs that provide meaning to life and death’. Waterhouse’s definition not only encompasses the five main religions but also the various sub divisions and alternative religions. Tourism is defined by OED (2012) as ‘the theory and practice of touring, travelling for pleasure’ and thus a person on tour is defined as a tourist. The OED (2012) defines sacred as ‘dedicated, set apart, exclusively appropriated to some person or some special purpose’.
This essay will discuss the view that pilgrimage to sacred sites is a form of tourism by outlining the debates surrounding sacred sites and between different factions. The essay will then apply these arguments and ideas to Stonehenge and Avebury. It will also look at the associations of Pilgrimage and Tourism within the ideologies surrounding leisure and their application to Glastonbury.
The definition of sacred as a place separate from the secular world has different connotations and meaning for different individuals and groups. The main academic argument is between the ideas that the site is inherently sacred or is the product of human effort. Eliade (1961) argues that the ‘manifestation of something of a wholly different order, a reality that does not belong to our world in objects tha...
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Wolffe, J. (2008), ‘Tradition and Dissent in English Christianity’ in Price, C (ed), Tradition and Dissent AA100 Book 2, Milton Keynes, The Open University, pp71-106
A traveling pilgrim deeply connects and explores the cultures they visit in the same way a spiritual tourist explores life's meaning and significance. In this way, spiritual pilgrims are made unique by their desire to find life purpose. As Falson's life begins to fall apart, he finds new life purpose through the study of St. Francis's Christ-like lifestyle of poverty and generosity. A reader can especially make this connection as Falson washes the genitals of a poor man and the impact it makes on him. Pilgrims studying history search for the purposes and deeper implications of each past event. They seek not just to know the facts but also their deeper
"Pilgrim Hall Museum - About the Pilgrims - The Pilgrim Story." Pilgrim Hall Museum - About the Pilgrims - The Pilgrim Story. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Nov. 2013. .
encouraging others to adopt Christian beliefs. Some Protestants would also say that there is no real evidence of pilgrimage in the Bible, so it is not a Christian idea and should not happen. With the exception perhaps of the Holy Land, sites of pilgrimage are. defined sometimes by only one witness who claims to have had a vision. or a miracle of a life.
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Aspects of Pilgrimage In this piece of coursework, I will discuss what is involved in pilgrimage. After this, I will discuss what goes on in specific places of pilgrimage, such as in Lourdes and Taize, and how they differ from one another. I will also explain the meaning of pilgrimage to answer the question "what is involved in pilgrimage?" and mention who goes on pilgrimages. A pilgrimage is a journey with religious significance and is found in the great religions of the world.
In The Sacred & The Profane: A Nature of Religion, Mircea Eliade attempts to define the sacred by stating it is “the opposite of the profane” (pg. 10). Through out the book he tries to explain this statement through the concept of hierophany (the idea that one can experience, sensorily, the manifestation of the holy/sacred), however his main explanation of the sacred being “the opposite of the profane” is the comparison of a modern religious man and a modern non-religious man (a profane man). Eliade compares the two by explaining how each would react to space, time, nature, and life. This essay will explain the idea of sacred space, how a religious and a profane man would experience it, and how the idea of sacred space might be applied to the study of medieval art and architecture.
Pilgrimage tourism in the realm of foreign trade concerning environmental factor (A case study of Kangla shrine)
Rather it is to suggest the need for social scientists to take seriously a more heterodox account of “other” actants (God, Higher Powers, spirits) that co-constitute the material, bodily, sensational and sensory worlds of religious subjectivities. Critical geographies of religious experience entails an investigation of the poetics as much as the politics of religious space, identity and performance (Kong, 2001), leading to a theorisation of religious experience that does not take ‘authentic’ religious experience at face value, but neither does it dismiss the ontological status of the divine in the lifeworlds of believers (Meyer, 2006). Instead, anthropological perspectives highlight the somatic, kinaesthetic and haptic dimensions of religious practices (see Reinhardt, 2014; Meyer, 2011; Krause, 2014). Such an approach offers an ‘object-subject’ reading of religious experience, emphasising the mediatory forms (or ‘sensational forms’ Meyer, 2006) that ‘make the transcendental sense-able’, for instance, the solicitation of the sacred or the divine through objects – images, texts, buildings – which address and involve participants in a specific manner and induce particular
The ritual of pilgrimage is not only reserved for religious individuals, but non-religious individuals are also performing it as well. This paper will discuss the ways in which religious and non-religious pilgrimage rituals are very similar in what they provide to society by drawing on the video clips “Vietnam wall stories” as well as the texts “The Janai Purnima Pilgrimage of the Tamang Shamans of Nepal” by Larry G. Peters and “Heartland of America: Memory, Motion and the Reconstruction of History on a Motorcycle Pilgrimage” by Jill Dubisch, as well as the text “Polaroids from Heaven” by Daniel Wojcik. .
-Tourism is an activity that done by an individual or a group of individuals which leads to a motion from their place to another....
A Century of Theological and Religious Studies in Britain, 1902–2007 by Ernest Nicholson 2004 pages 125–126
Going on a pilgrimage is a good thing for any adherent to go on because a pilgrimage can make you feel closer to god it also helps you to understand and see things that when you read the bible or quran you don’t really understand. A pilgrimage is a journey undertaken for a sacred purpose one goes on pilgrimage in order to find favour with God and to merit or earn blessings ("Why Is Pilgrimage so Important to Christians." Religion Answers. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Jan. 2015). The Pilgrimage also alls you talk to God with all the distraction of life and find his purpose for you. I think this is why many christian still choose to go on Pilgrimages even though they are optional in there faith. The Pilgrimages are a great way to connect with God and learn about your religion and your
In the study of Wilkins (2009) -Tourism has been described as a sacred journey (Graburn 1989), with there being a need for people to bring back mementos and souvenirs of the “sacred, extraordinary time or space” (Gordon, 1986 page 136), not only to aid recollection of the experience, but also to prove it (Gordon 1986; Swanson 2004; Littrell et al. 1994). The gathering of souvenirs makes an experience tangible, either for consumption by others or as a means of prolonging the experience for one’s own consumption (Gordon 1986; MacCannell 1989). Zauberman, Ratner & Kim (2009) have coined the term ‘strategic memory protection’ to describe actions designed to encourage memory of important life events, with souvenirs being an