RT Article
T1 Missional pilgrimage: A new framework for short-term mission
JF Missiology
VO 51
IS 2
SP 170
OP 182
A1 Spencer, Rachel D.
A1 Green, Hannah
A2 Green, Hannah
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1843383950
AB Pilgrimage and short-term mission have both seen a rise in popularity in recent years. Despite its popularity, the goals and expectations associated with short-term mission are often in conflict with the lived experiences of participants who both go on, and receive those doing short-term mission. The liminality and communitas described by participants in short-term mission reflect similar processes found in the practice of pilgrimage. In this article we show the multiple similarities between pilgrimage and short-term mission and suggest a new framework of “missional pilgrimage” as a way of bringing together these lived experiences with the aims of short-term mission. In doing this we do not reduce those who receive short-term mission participants to the “holy center” but rather consider them as fellow pilgrims who journey alongside those being sent in participating in the missio Dei, the mission of God in a wider sense.
K1 anthropology of pilgrimage
K1 anthropology of mission
K1 missional pilgrimage
K1 Spiritual Practice
K1 Communitas
K1 Liminality
K1 mission practice
K1 short-term mission
K1 Pilgrimage
DO 10.1177/00918296231152266