. Pilgrimage—journeying from one’s home to a hallowed site—has a long tradition. In ancient and modem times, and in many cultures and religions, adherents have traveled to venerate holy places, to visit tombs of holy persons or...

The recent history of Chinese religion can be said to begin at the end of the nineteenth century with the emergence of a concerted ideological critique of religion. This critique gradually intensified over the next several decades, and was accompanied...

Pilgrimage is the practice of journeying to sites where religious powers, knowledge, or experiences are deemed especially accessible. Such journeys are increasingly popular throughout South Asia, facilitated by ever-improving transportation. Every...

Pilgrimage in all religions is pre-eminently a journey of the religious imagination. It obviously constitutes physical movement from one place to another, but at the same time involves spiritual or temporal movement. Pilgrimage may project the believer...

In religion and spirituality, a pilgrimage is a long journey or search of great moral significance. Sometimes, it is a journey to a sacred place or shrine of importance to a person's beliefs and faith. Members of every major religion participate in...

The 60-year-old Egyptian farmer spent years scraping together $11,000 to bring his wife and son here to perform Islam's hajj pilgrimage.They have slept for days in tiny one-person tents near the hajj's sacred sites and walked for miles from ritual to ritual — despite his...

Nearly 3 million Muslims from around the world, chanting and raising their hands to heaven, marched through a desert valley outside Mecca on Thursday on the first day of the annual hajj pilgrimage.Dressed in seamless white robes symbolizing the equality of mankind under God, the...

Hundreds of thousands of Shiites marched to a gold-domed mosque in harsh heat and sun Thursday in a pilgrimage of devotion to an 8th century saint that also starkly demonstrated their political power.Only scattered strikes by Sunni insurgents marred the event, held amid tight security...

Pope Benedict XVI made a pilgrimage Saturday to a famous shrine to the Virgin Mary, where he celebrated an open-air Mass in the rain for more than 30,000 believers and called on Europeans to embrace faith.The pope was taken by car to Mariazell, about 90...

Christian pilgrimmages and life changing experiences.