Pilgrimage Flashcards
What is a pilgrimage
A religious journey to a sacred place
What’s the point in a pilgrimage?
Feel close to god
Hope, acceptance, peace
Strengthens faith
Why do people go to Iona?
A ‘thin’ place, veil is thin
Physical meets the spiritual, close to god
Feel gods presence through nature
Place to help others, contemplate faith, close to nature and reflect
Ecumenism~> go at the pace of the group, unification of denominations, community
Why do people go to Lourdes?
Mostly Catholics, help each other to get there
St Bernadette’s vision of Virgin Mary
Attend healing services
Hope for cures/miracles
Change, not a cure, acceptance and peace with their condition
67 official miracles taken place
What does Dawkins say about Lourdes
It’s a myth
Stemmed from desperation
Embracing the truth is better than false hope
Healing is spiritual, not physical
There is statistically no evidence at all
Why would a xian go to Jerusalem
Bring faith alive, give it a sense of reality
Understand and see biblical stories
Be where Jesus walked
