The Way of Saint James: A sacred space?

An increasing number of pilgrims make their way each year to the Sanctuary of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia. For many, the Way is almost more important than the goal to be achieved, that is, the tomb of the apostle. Can the space thus covered, sometimes taking weeks or months, be considered ‘sac...

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Main Author: Rucquoi, Adeline 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Dublin Institute of Technology [2019]
In: The international journal of religious tourism and pilgrimage
Year: 2019, Volume: 7, Issue: 5, Pages: 41-47
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Camino de Santiago / Space / The Holy / Pilgrimage / Life / Path
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AF Geography of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
CB Christian life; spirituality
KBH Iberian Peninsula
Further subjects:B Santiago
B Pilgrimage
B Sacred
B Saint James
B Way
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Summary:An increasing number of pilgrims make their way each year to the Sanctuary of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia. For many, the Way is almost more important than the goal to be achieved, that is, the tomb of the apostle. Can the space thus covered, sometimes taking weeks or months, be considered ‘sacred'? Undoubtedly, the pilgrimage to Compostela unites space and time. But it adds a particular symbolic dimension to them that makes it the quest for the elsewhere, the other and the absolute. As an image of the ‘pilgrimage of human life', the whole formed by the apostolic sanctuary and the path leading to it, thus, acquires a sacred character.
ISSN:2009-7379
Contains:Enthalten in: The international journal of religious tourism and pilgrimage
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.21427/02ax-eb56