Personal Dimensions of the Sacred Journey

What Pilgrims Say

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5772906
AutoresBarbara Nimri Aziz (New York Proton Center, autor correspondente)
Ano1987
Volume23
Fascículo2
Páginas247-261
Data de publicação1987-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoReligious Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0034-4125 • E-ISSN: 1469-901X
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0034412500018758
OpenAlexW2157031019
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas25
Referências citadas7

A decade has passed since Victor Turner published his long and important paper defining pilgrimage as a ritual process. There and in his earlier article 'The Centre Out There', which appeared a year earlier, Turner provided a social explanation for the ubiquitous and still expanding phenomenon of pilgrimage. His simple model, developed from Van Gennep's 'rite de passage' seemed profound; it offered us a means for comparing the sacred journeys of one people with those of another, and for comparing pilgrimage with other kinds of ritual processes. Moreover, a vast amount of sociological data having to do with class, age, caste, and status of pilgrims could be usefully mobilized within this model. It continues to have some value although subsequent studies have shown that often pilgrim-groups are not as coherent or homogenous as Turner's model suggested they would become as they moved ever closer to the sacred centre of their shared faith

Caste · Phenomenon · Pilgrim · Rite · Rite of passage · Value (mathematics · Wildness · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious Tourism and Spaces