Searching for the Green Man: Researching Pilgrimage in Israel/Palestine and Egypt
This article examines contemporary pilgrimage in Israel / Palestine and Egypt, based upon field work conducted December 2017-February 2018 and personal narrative. My argument is twofold: first, I contend that Pilgrimage Studies allows scholars to move beyond reductive labels and consider the implici...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Dublin Institute of Technology
[2019]
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The international journal of religious tourism and pilgrimage
Year: 2019, Volume: 7, Issue: 3, Pages: 16-26 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Israel
/ Palestine
/ Egypt
/ Moses
/ Khiḍr
/ Pilgrimage
/ Religious experience
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| IxTheo Classification: | AE Psychology of religion AG Religious life; material religion AX Inter-religious relations KBL Near East and North Africa |
| Further subjects: | B
Pilgrimage
B Jerusalem B al-Khidr B Egypt B pilgrimage studies B Palestine |
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| Summary: | This article examines contemporary pilgrimage in Israel / Palestine and Egypt, based upon field work conducted December 2017-February 2018 and personal narrative. My argument is twofold: first, I contend that Pilgrimage Studies allows scholars to move beyond reductive labels and consider the implicit messiness' of religious faith and ritual praxis. I introduce the Islamic al-Khidr and Moses story from Qur'an 18.60-82, as an interpretative model, suggesting that rigid categorization—especially concerning religious identity and sectarian division—promotes a false narrative of monolithic faith traditions that, upon closer examination, does not fully exist. Second, by referencing my ethnographic experiences, I consider pilgrimage as fundamentally located in the body, often fraught with moral ambiguity and physical trauma. |
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| ISSN: | 2009-7379 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The international journal of religious tourism and pilgrimage
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.21427/3pmx-q005 |