Virtual Pilgrimages on the Internet
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4372525 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Macwilliams (0009-0007-1377-3255, St. Lawrence University, corresponding author), Mark W Macwilliams |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 315-335 |
| Publication date | 2002-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0048-721X • E-ISSN: 1096-1151 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1006/reli.2002.0408 |
| OpenAlex | W2071916575 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 10 |
Virtual pilgrimage on the Internet is an important religious phenomenon for understanding the new ways of being spiritual in the postmodern world. While often conservative in character, linked as they are to actual sacred sites that are permeated by the mythical imaginare of tradition, virtual pilgrimages exploit the new technological possibilities of the Internet to re-imagine the sacred. In what follows, I argue that virtual pilgrimage has four key characteristics as a form of religious travel. First, it creates a mythscape, an immaterial mental geography that originally comes from sacred oral or scriptural traditions. Second, it exists as an interactive visual-auditory medium for experiencing a sense of sacred presence. Third, it generates symbolic forms of entertainment that are liminoid in character. Fourth, as a leisure activity of individuals ‘Net surfing’ from their home or office computers, it can create ‘virtual travelling communities’ of pilgrims who use the discourse of communitas to describe their experience
Aesthetics · Art · Character (mathematics) · Communitas · Entertainment · Epistemology · Key (lock) · Liminality · Literature · Phenomenon · Pilgrimage · Postmodernism · Simulacrum · Sociology · The Internet · Theology · Visual arts · World Wide Web · Anthropology · Computer Science · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Philosophy · Religious Tourism and Spaces
Sacrilisation of secular pilgrimages as archetypal transformational journeys
In defence of differentiating pilgrimage from tourism
Cyberpilgrimage
Virtual hajj as a response to demographic and geopolitical pressures
Re-crafting the Past
Surfing therapeutic landscapes
Islam and Online Imagery on Malaysian Tourist Destination Websites
Virtual Religion in Context
Hinduism and cyberspace
Secular pilgrimages and sacred tourism in the Indian Himalayas
Procedural (E)motion
A Review of the Literature Exploring the Occupation of Contemporary Pilgrimage
Religiousness as tourist performances
Cyberpilgrimage
From Archangels to Virtual Pilgrims
Pagan Pilgrimage
Spiritual therapeutic landscapes and healing
Material religion in cyberspace
Mapping Digital Religion
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,79 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2023 (22) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |