RELIGST 2WW3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Wart, Alternative Medicine, Allopathic Medicine
23 Nov 2014
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Faith tourism: pilgrimage is more popular than ever. Post-modern and globalized era is particularly: fast growing industry, pilgrimage is well suited for individualized self-meaning and experience of truth, many websites for faith tourism. Pilgrimage as a rite of passage for healing: one of the oldest ways to look at pilgrimage is to see it as a rite of passage for healing, theory that gilmore used as a template in week 5. Very important theory: theory of rite of passage is 3fold. In this stage, pilgrims experience a period of ritual transition: this is also called a liminal stage. You"re in between and betwixt term liminal aptly describes the stage of transition: figuratively poised over the threshold of two social worlds. In between and betwixt: sense of freedom from daily constraints if youre in this transitional plac cuz youre free from responsibilities. You leave all that behind when youre going to pilgrimage. When you embark on your spiritual journey of pilgrimage.
