A religious believer in any culture may sometimes look beyond the local temple, church, or shrine, feel the call of some distant holy place renowned for miracles and the revivification of faith, and resolve to journey there. The goal of the journey,...

. 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...

Traditional pilgrimage practices, having all but ceased to exist during the Cultural Revolution, re-emerged in the 1980s. In addition, new forms of pilgrimage to sites associated with CCP history and the revolution that appeared following the Communist...

(yātra, i.e. ‘going’) to a sacred place (tīrtha—ford, crossing-point over the stream of to the other shore of salvation) is one of the most important duties or aspirations of a Hindu to be undergone at least once in...

Journey to a shrine or other sacred place undertaken to gain divine aid, as an act of thanksgiving or penance, or to demonstrate devotion. Medieval Christian pilgrims stayed at hospices set up specifically for pilgrims, and on their return trip they...

The practice of visiting a holy place. According to the *Torah, all Jews should go up to *Jerusalem for the three *pilgrim festivals. After the destruction of the *Temple, the practice continued, but it was to mourn at the *Western Wall at the ruins of...

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...