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Globalization, Glocalization, and the Changing Nature of Pilgrimage in a Post-Secular World
Ad LiminaGlobalization is a commonly used term to describe the rapid changes and spatial transformations that have taken place on a global scale over the past forty years.
Daniel H. Olsen
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Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study introduces the Paradox of Escapism, exploring how the act of escaping reality can evolve from a short‐term avoidance strategy to a mechanism for self‐regulation and enhanced life satisfaction. Employing five rigorous, multimethod investigations, including qualitative interviews and sentiment analysis (Study 1), Structural Equation ...
Thamiris Magalhães de Sousa +3 more
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Mobilizing Presence across Borders: Devotion to Papua New Guinea's Blessed Peter To Rot in Australia
Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article engages with the conjunctures between migration and religion by focusing on the celebration of Papua New Guinea's ‘National Patron Saint’, the Blessed Peter To Rot, in the Australian diaspora. Both in Sydney and Brisbane, Catholic Papua New Guinea (PNG) migrants have been ‘relocating’ PNG shrines, regalia, relics and ritual ...
Anna‐Karina Hermkens
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A Study on Virtual Pilgrimage Practices in the Catholic Church
Kocatepe İslami İlimler DergisiThe twenty-first century has witnessed a rapid digitalization process as the internet has permeated every aspect of social life, bringing about a fundamental transformation in worship and accessibility to sacred places.
Esra Nur Çiftçi, Muhammet Yeşilyurt
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Management of Pilgrimages in Lithuania: Resources, Stakeholders and Projects
International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage, 2020 The paper deals with the analysis of the pilgrimage management structure in Lithuania. The author presents the possible intervention framework of the pilgrimage’s management. The network of sacred places in Lithuania is the main resource of the religious
Darius Liutikas
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The third sector has emerged as an increasingly important actor in governance, social development, and public service delivery across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), yet scholarly understanding of its evolution, institutional capacity, and policy role remains fragmented and uneven.
Moosa Elayah +2 more
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International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage, 2022 Pilgrimage is one of the ways to acquire spirituality in the Shiite sect, and the shrines of the Imams are places of pilgrimage full of spirituality.
Asghar Molaei
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This essay argues that the Rocío hallazgo legend employs divine self‐placement to turn territorial uncertainty into sacred stewardship. The Virgin's miraculous refusal to move establishes the marshlands of Las Rocinas as a communal religious site, transforming a marginal and legally ambiguous area.
Adriano Duque
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
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Contemporary Trends in the Theological Understanding of Christian Pilgrimage
International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage, 2022 This paper analyses the historical changes that have taken place in the Christian theology of pilgrimage from Patristics to the present time. Against that background, it identifies the core parameters of the theological debate on pilgrimage, including ...
Piotr Roszak
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