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Digital Devotion in the Era of Cyberpilgrimage: Understanding Virtual Pilgrimage Intentions among Older Adults

Pure & Applied Psychology Research Insights
This study explores the psychological and technological predictors of virtual pilgrimage intentions among older adults in India—a population often excluded from traditional sacred journeys due to age-related constraints. Drawing on frameworks such as TAM
S. Chawla, Disha Bagga
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Virtual Pilgrimages on the Internet

Religion, 2002
Abstract Virtual pilgrimage on the Internet is an important religious phenomenon for understanding the new ways of being spiritual in the postmodern world. While often conservative in character, linked as they are to actual sacred sites that are permeated by the mythical imaginare of tradition, virtual pilgrimages exploit the new technological ...
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Does understanding of pilgrimage routes elicit idealised emotional experiences through virtual reality walking?

Rural Society
The World Heritage pilgrimage routes known as Kumano Kodo have attracted both Japanese and international tourists to the rural area of Japan. By focussing on the two types of emotional experiences, namely awe and ideal affect, this research aims to ...
Eiji Itô, Shintaro Kono
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Cyberpilgrimage: The (Virtual) Reality of Online Pilgrimage Experience

Religion Compass, 2011
Abstract Cyberpilgrimage is the practice of undertaking pilgrimage on the internet. Such pilgrimages may be performed for a host of reasons, ranging from idle curiosity to the need to ready oneself, psychologically or informationally, for a ‘real’ (terrestrial) pilgrimage.
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Virtual Pilgrimages? Enclosure and the Practice of Piety at St Katherine's Convent, Augsburg

The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 2009
For forty years, the sisters of St Katherine's, Augsburg, resisted the introduction of strict enclosure as a consequence of Dominican reform. This article examines the initial reactions of the sisters, explores the Dominican practice of enclosure and its connections with obedience, and the influence it had on the sisters' spirituality.
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Virtual Reality and Pilgrimage Tourism: An Exploratory Study

Abstract Virtual reality (VR) pilgrimages can be undertaken for many different reasons, ranging from idle curiosity to the need for psychological or informational preparation for a ‘real’ (earthly) pilgrimage. Depending on the circumstances and individual motivations, these experiences can be profoundly transformative, enlightening ...
Eunice Duarte, Marco Martins
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Virtual Pilgrimages to Real Places: the Holy Landscapes

2012
This chapter attempts to differentiate between types of monumental representations of Jerusalem, to locate them historically and to explore the reasons for their extraordinary density by deciphering the essentials of their function as mnemonic devices in the framework of medieval devotionalism.
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Performing Virtual Pilgrimage: Somaesthetics and Holy Land Devotion at San Vivaldo

2020
Chapter Four examines the somaesthetic experience of the Nuova Gerusalemme di San Vivaldo, a virtual holy land that was constructed by Franciscan friars from Florence in a Tuscan forest in the first decade of the sixteenth century. Designed to emulate
Allie Terry-Fritsch
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