Introduction: The Body is the Place Where Pilgrimage Happens

This paper lays the groundwork for reflection on pilgrimage in Christian and postChristian contexts, specifically as a cluster of performative practices of movement through time and across space, originating and substantiated in the lived flesh of pilgrim bodies-in-the-world. Thinking with Eade, Sal...

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Main Author: Terreault, Sara (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: 1, Pages: 1-10
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Christianity / Pilgrimage / Embodiment
IxTheo Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AE Psychology of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
CB Christian life; spirituality
Further subjects:B embodiedness
B mind-body
B theorising pilgrimage
B mindbody
B Sallnow
B Mobility
B Ricoeur
B Badiou
B Communitas
B embodied religion
B Poteat
B Narrative
B Pilgrimage
B Post-modern
B Topography
B Transcendence
B Christian
B post-Christian
B Eade
B Body
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Summary:This paper lays the groundwork for reflection on pilgrimage in Christian and postChristian contexts, specifically as a cluster of performative practices of movement through time and across space, originating and substantiated in the lived flesh of pilgrim bodies-in-the-world. Thinking with Eade, Sallnow, and Poteat, no less than with Badiou, Eagleton, and Ricoeur, the author theorises the pilgrim body at the nexus of bodies, topographies, mobilities, and narratives.
ISSN:2009-7379
Contains:Enthalten in: The international journal of religious tourism and pilgrimage
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.21427/tm2e-c656