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Event Running And Pilgrimage: A Comparative Case Study, Janice Poltrick-Donato
Event Running And Pilgrimage: A Comparative Case Study, Janice Poltrick-Donato
International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage
Janice Poltrick-Donato’s ‘Event Running and Pilgrimage’ links pilgrimage with the trials and triumphs of the amateur event runner. She demonstrates the statistical and existential parallels between the two practices, and shows how the suffering and accomplishments of running are experienced by some runners as a form of secular pilgrimage, a ‘journey to the self.’
Written By The Body: Early Christian Pilgrims As Sacred Placemakers, Jenn Cianca
Written By The Body: Early Christian Pilgrims As Sacred Placemakers, Jenn Cianca
International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage
This paper uncovers how the journeys of the earliest Christian pilgrims constructed the very notion of sacred bodies and sacred place, consequently establishing the networks of pilgrimage routes that would be used by Western travellers from Late Antiquity onward.