Monday, April 30, 2012

Sarah Ritter Image and Pilgrimage #2


            In Image and Pilgrimage in the Christian Culture written by Arnold Van Gennep, he discusses how the process of a pilgrimage is a liminoid phenomenon.  He discusses how a pilgrimage is a period where an individual escapes from the mundane tasks of everyday life in their day-to-day world and travels through a sort of plane to reach a spiritual world.  Whether the pilgrim seeks to reach this spiritual world consciously when they set out on this journey or whether it is simply a minor thought somewhere in their subconscious, every pilgrim will at point along the journey and in some degree experience this liminality.

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