Pilgrimage
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| - | A '''travel journal''', or '''road journal''' or '''travelogue ''', is an initially blank book carried by a traveler for the purpose of documenting a journey. Clippings, tokens, or tickets may be included as they are collected. The journal may also include notes written by acquaintances. Some journals feature hand-drawn [[illustrations]], or even [[watercolor]]s, of friends and places. A travelogue may also contain details of bad experiences. Since the popularization of the World Wide Web, digital travel journals called travel blogs have become commonplace. | + | A '''pilgrimage''' is a [[Travel|journey]] or search of [[moral]] or [[spirituality|spiritual]] significance. Typically, it is a journey to a [[shrine]] or other location of importance to a person's [[belief]]s and [[faith]], although sometimes it can be a metaphorical journey into someone's own beliefs. Many religions attach spiritual importance to particular places: the place of birth or death of founders or saints, or to the place of their "calling" or spiritual awakening, or of their connection (visual or verbal) with the divine, to locations where miracles were performed or witnessed, or locations where a deity is said to live or be "housed," or any site that is seen to have special spiritual powers. Such sites may be commemorated with shrines or temples that devotees are encouraged to visit for their own spiritual benefit: to be healed or have questions answered or to achieve some other spiritual benefit. A person who makes such a journey is called a [[pilgrim]]. As a common human experience, pilgrimage has been proposed as a Jungian archetype by [[Wallace Clift]] and [[Jean Dalby Clift]]. |
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| - | ==In popular culture== | + | |
| - | Jack Kerouac's ''[[On the Road]]'' is a stream of consciousness novel written largely as a travel journal based on the spontaneous road trips of Kerouac and his friends across mid-century America. Jonathan Swift's [[1726]] ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'' is a satirical novel parodying the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre that was immensely popular at that time. Geoffrey Chaucer's [[14th century]] ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'', mostly a collection of unrelated stories, is interspersed with details of a group [[pilgrimage]] from Southwark to Canterbury. | + | |
| + | ==See also== | ||
| + | * [[Burial places of founders of world religions]] | ||
| + | * [[HCPT – The Pilgrimage Trust]] | ||
| + | * [[Junrei]] | ||
| + | * [[List of shrines]] | ||
| + | * [[List of significant religious sites]] | ||
| + | * [[Monastery]] | ||
| + | * [[Pardon (ceremony)]] | ||
| + | * [[Romeria]] | ||
| + | * [[Sacred travel]] | ||
| + | * [[World Youth Day]] | ||
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A pilgrimage is a journey or search of moral or spiritual significance. Typically, it is a journey to a shrine or other location of importance to a person's beliefs and faith, although sometimes it can be a metaphorical journey into someone's own beliefs. Many religions attach spiritual importance to particular places: the place of birth or death of founders or saints, or to the place of their "calling" or spiritual awakening, or of their connection (visual or verbal) with the divine, to locations where miracles were performed or witnessed, or locations where a deity is said to live or be "housed," or any site that is seen to have special spiritual powers. Such sites may be commemorated with shrines or temples that devotees are encouraged to visit for their own spiritual benefit: to be healed or have questions answered or to achieve some other spiritual benefit. A person who makes such a journey is called a pilgrim. As a common human experience, pilgrimage has been proposed as a Jungian archetype by Wallace Clift and Jean Dalby Clift.
See also
- Burial places of founders of world religions
- HCPT – The Pilgrimage Trust
- Junrei
- List of shrines
- List of significant religious sites
- Monastery
- Pardon (ceremony)
- Romeria
- Sacred travel
- World Youth Day
