For this journal I would like to
discuss how liminality plays a role in Pilgrimage. The book describes how through “passage
rites: release from mundane structure; homogenization of status; simplicity of dress
and behavior; communitas; ordeal…”(Turner &Turner 1978, p. 34). The list actually went on and on however I did
not have the time in the journal to delve into each and every attribute the
pilgrimage borrows from liminality.
Continuing on then, liminality obviously shares a great deal with
pilgrimages in this journal I would like to discuss release from mundane
structure. Release from mundane
structure in liminality I believe is referring to the breaking of normal molds
when someone begins a pilgrimage. You cross
the threshold out of the everyday and into the unknown. One thing I would like to touch on here is
that at the end of the pilgrimage there certainly is the liminal phase of
re-entry which occurs as you come back into the mundane. However here I would think that things would
be different due to some type of insight gained on the pilgrimage otherwise
what really was the point of taking the pilgrimage in the first place.
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