The Still Center as Invented Topos: Static Pilgrimage in Aristasia

After decades of challenges to many other definitional elements of ‘pilgrimage', the centrality of motion and physical movement, whether literally enacted or realized virtually or through metaphor, remains largely uncontested. This paper examines practices of creative writing and home decoratin...

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Main Author: MoChridhe, Race (Author)
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Published: Dublin Institute of Technology [2020]
In: The international journal of religious tourism and pilgrimage
Year: 2020, Volume: 8, Issue: 3, Pages: 77-86
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Great Britain / New religion / Subculture / Pilgrimage / Waiting (Philosophy)
IxTheo Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
AZ New religious movements
Further subjects:B Aristasia
B Globalization
B Madrianism
B static pilgrimage
B Filianism
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