Event Running and Pilgrimage: A Comparative Case Study
Janice Poltrick-Donato's Event Running and Pilgrimage' links pilgrimage with the trials and triumphs of the amateur event runner. She demonstrates the statistical and existential parallels between the two practices, and shows how the suffering and accomplishments of running are experience...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Dublin Institute of Technology
[2019]
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| In: |
The international journal of religious tourism and pilgrimage
Year: 2019, Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Pages: 95-108 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Event
/ Marathon running
/ Secularism
/ Pilgrimage
/ Self
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion ZA Social sciences ZB Sociology |
| Further subjects: | B
Communitas
B destination pilgrimage B marathon B Camino B Pilgrimage B rite of passage B event running B Gender B journey pilgrimage B the zone B Flow |
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| Summary: | Janice Poltrick-Donato's Event Running and Pilgrimage' links pilgrimage with the trials and triumphs of the amateur event runner. She demonstrates the statistical and existential parallels between the two practices, and shows how the suffering and accomplishments of running are experienced by some runners as a form of secular pilgrimage, a journey to the self.' |
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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/b5x6-4963 |