Pilgrimages

different ways to define ‘community.’ The most basic and literal definition is: a group of people. However, it can also branch out into different types, it can be specific and refer to a religious community or sometimes a sense of community. The Ma Tzu pilgrimage in Taiwan fulfills all of the above. Every year, four to five million Ma Tzu followers gather to participate in the old ritual. Perhaps the reason why the practice is so extensive--not only in terms of the amount of followers but also in its depiction

of the Catholic and Islam faith pilgrimages are spiritual, life-changing journeys in which pilgrims focus on deepening their connection with God and others. On the pilgrimage to the El Camino de Santiago and the Hajj the ordinary life of the pilgrims is transformed through the extraordinary experience. The format of this multimodal will be a painting, which will support the analysis of the impact of the Camino and the Hajj pilgrimage. The impact for both pilgrimages is that they strengthen pilgrim’s

There were also stories about St. James ' retaliations against non-believers who questioned his power. Constable translates a story about Saracens who took over Compostela, and "by divine retribution, some of them were afflicted by looseness of the bowels, and shot whatever they had in their bellies out through their back passages. Others lost the sight of their eyes and wandered blindly about the church and the city." This account demonstrates what could happen if one did not show proper respect

Sinai. “Muslim’s make the pilgrimage to Mt. Sinai to see the mosque, Christian pilgrim’s make the journey to encounter the chapel and far and in between, Jew’s rarely make a pilgrimage to Mt. Sinai so that it will “remain surrounded by misty holiness.”” (Kessler, 1968) Christian pilgrims encounter a revolutionary Christian ideology through the monastery

family vacation. What I did not know was that I would be stuck sitting on a donkey for over ten hours climbing up a 15,000 foot mountain. My dad invited me to go to Hemkund Sahib, which is a Sikh holy mountain where thousands of Sikhs make their pilgrimage each year. As a 13 year old I was thinking, “Wow! I get to climb a mountain! Of course I’m going!” However, I did not know what I was throwing myself into. In this paper I will be applying Turner and Turner’s theory and framework to my experience

are in line with Zhang et al., (2007), Frey (2004) and Percy (1998), regarding the pilgrimage purposes in search of socialising, fulfilment, sport and faith and Kavoura (2012) regarding visitors’ interests in history and architecture as Facebook posts suggested about relevant architecture along the route. The literature suggested that must be a differentiation between the secular and spiritual visitors of pilgrimages, results are in line with Alvarez and Garcia (1999)

In Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, various people band together to go on a pilgrimage from England to Canterbury. Their aim is to see a shrine of St Thomas Beckett, the revered Archbishop of Canterbury who had reportedly healed others when they were ill. The pilgrims have a variety of occupations and are divided fairly evenly amongst the three estates (clergy, nobility, and commoners). The pilgrims who are members of the clergy are ironically depicted as the least moral, compared to the

A Vivid And Vibrant Character? ‘The Canterbury Tales’ is a selection of stories written in Middle English. On a spring day in April sometime in the 14th century 29 pilgrims (including Chaucer as a character 30) set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage. Among them is a knight, a monk, a prioress, two nun’s, the friar, the squire, the yeoman, the merchant, a clerk, a sergeant of the law, a wealthy landowner, a doctor, the wife of Bath, a supplier, the reeve, a somonour, a pardoner, Harry

make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow, " A.C. Benson. In the Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer speaks of a pilgrimage, or religion journey, and the many people who go with him. The tales are made up of each persons story that they tell along the way. Each of these characters adds to his great story told by Chaucer, however, the question is posed, who could he had from this century that would influence this pilgrimage? There are many

The first pilgrim we are introduced to, is the Knight, who is described as being a man of “Truth, honour, generousness and courtesy” (4). The narrator then describes his appearance as “not gaily dressed” and the Knights reasoning for attending the pilgrimage as simply a way to “render thanks” (5). While the Knight is portrayed as a virtuous pilgrim, we are introduced to his son, the Squire. The Squire is a knight in training who is described as being “A lover and cadet...With locks as curly a if they