RT Article
T1 The Way of Saint James: A sacred space?
JF The international journal of religious tourism and pilgrimage
VO 7
IS 5
SP 41
OP 47
A1 Rucquoi, Adeline 1949-
LA English
PB Dublin Institute of Technology
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1694805611
AB An increasing number of pilgrims make their way each year to the Sanctuary of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia. For many, the Way is almost more important than the goal to be achieved, that is, the tomb of the apostle. Can the space thus covered, sometimes taking weeks or months, be considered ‘sacred'? Undoubtedly, the pilgrimage to Compostela unites space and time. But it adds a particular symbolic dimension to them that makes it the quest for the elsewhere, the other and the absolute. As an image of the ‘pilgrimage of human life', the whole formed by the apostolic sanctuary and the path leading to it, thus, acquires a sacred character.
K1 Saint James
K1 Santiago
K1 Pilgrimage
K1 Sacred
K1 Way
DO 10.21427/02ax-eb56