Religious Tourism: The Way to Santiago

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CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW 2.2.1 Different Pilgrimage sites According to Collins-Kreiner (2006), Pilgrimage is one of the well-known phenomena in religion and it exists in all the main religions of the world: Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Buddhism. For Christianity, places as Jerusalem, Rome, or Santiago de Compostela, remain as the three more important place of pilgrimage. Lourdes in France is considered as well as one of the most important pilgrimage sites. For Islam, Mecca, and Medina are still the places of pilgrimage, in this case not volunteered but obliged for every Muslim to go to Mecca at least once in their lives. For Judaism, the main site of pilgrimage for Jewish religion was the Temple of Jerusalem until it was destroyed in 70 AD. Jerusalem and the Wailing Wall also in Jerusalem are the most important places of pilgrimage for the Jews. For Buddhism, there are four different places of pilgrimage, but the most important is the birthplace of Buddha at Kapilavastu in Nepal. 2.2.2 Missionary Lewis (2004) explains that beside the pilgrims, there were other kinds of religiously- inspired travellers, especially in the Christians, and they are called missioners. From early times, Christian missions were active on and beyond the frontiers of Christendom. For centuries this missionary did not include the lands of Islam because apostasy in Muslim law is a capital offence and therefore it involves the execution of the apostate and the seducer. David Mashhadigholam Rojo 10
CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW Muslims did not engage in organized missionary activities but there were the wandering the Sufis carrying the faith through Central Asia, India and other places, being in its way pilgrims spreading their faith to other countries. 2.3 Common features of pilgrimage Fadhlalla (2000) shows the common features that the pilgrimage has in all different religions: • The significance of water by the site of a sacred place or shrine. Water is important as a means of purification, both for purposes of ablution and for curing the sick. • The ancient origin of many sites of pilgrimage. Newer faiths build their temples and shrines in places which have been venerated since ancient times. • Difficult access to the sacred places, requiring the pilgrim to make a long and arduous journey, including jungles and deserts. • The need to make sacrifices as part of the rites of pilgrimage. This includes offerings of food, flowers, and small amounts of money or similar tokens. • Physical obeisance at the shrine, and in some cases on the road towards the shrine. • Making the pilgrimage on foot. • A special mode of dress. This dress is often preserved as the pilgrim’s shroud. • Belief that objects left at a sacred place will become impregnated with divine or supernatural energy. • Importance of mountains and isolated locations as places of worship. • The benefits of maintaining all night vigils at a sacred place. • Certain times of the day and dates in the lunar calendar, specially the full moon, are considered more auspicious for pilgrimage. • Certain foods are prohibited during the pilgrimage. • Abstention from cutting the hair or nails, as well as from sexual relations during the time of pilgrimage. David Mashhadigholam Rojo 11
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REFERENCES REFERENCES • AL-AMIN,
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REFERENCES • PERNECKY, T., 2004.
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REFERENCES • SCOTT, J., 2000. Soc
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