I used to work at Disneyland when I was an undergraduate and often passed my time by listing all of the ways that visiting the Happiest Place on Earth resembled the practice of pilgrimage in medieval Europe, the ways that going to Disneyland had become a religious act.
The 20th century continued to generate important Christian myths and legend-based practices, including pilgrimages made on Marian feast days to holy wells and fairy rings outside the Irish town of Sneem and devotions at the tomb of Christ in Japan, where, according to local legend, Christ ended the long life of missionary travels he began after his mock death in Jerusalem.
The laity continued the practices of pilgrimages, veneration of relics, and belief in the power of the Devil.
Alongside this new culinary infrastructure, a new culinary practice, that of culinary pilgrimage to the food worlds of Russian Jewish New York has emerged among New Yorkers and visitors to New York, many but by no means all of whom are Jewish.
Wracked with a deep cough and suffering from "just a touch" of pneumonia, my grandfather returned from Hajj, the Islamic pilgrimage that practicing Muslims are required to undertake at least once in their lives.
When we think of mobility in social or cultural terms, a different set of topics come into view: pilgrimage and religious practice, globalization and economic disparities, migration and cultural identity, daily commutes and the suburbanization of cities.
As I say, I have journeyed to that amazing enclave 10 times to date; I hope to make that pilgrimage a recurrent practice.
We examine people's representations about local gods and their relationships with generally held norms and religious practices such as ritual and pilgrimage, and the governance of these sites; (2) karma: in Buddhist doctrine moral actions have karmic consequences in this life and the next.
Spiritual practice include prayer, fasting, charity and pilgrimage as well as the general but equally-important practice of serving and helping others.
Moreover, pilgrimage works to propagate practices among diverse regions because stories and tales of effective and attractive ritual acts circulate along with pilgrims.
