The Way of Saint James: A sacred space?

An increasing number of pilgrims make their way each year to the Sanctuary of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia. For many, the Way is almost more important than the goal to be achieved, that is, the tomb of the apostle. Can the space thus covered, sometimes taking weeks or months, be considered ‘sac...

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1. VerfasserIn: Rucquoi, Adeline 1949- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Dublin Institute of Technology [2019]
In: The international journal of religious tourism and pilgrimage
Jahr: 2019, Band: 7, Heft: 5, Seiten: 41-47
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Jakobsweg / Raum / Das Heilige / Wallfahrt / Leben / Weg
RelBib Classification:AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik
AF Religionsgeographie
AG Religiöses Leben; materielle Religion
CB Christliche Existenz; Spiritualität
KBH Iberische Halbinsel
weitere Schlagwörter:B Santiago
B Pilgrimage
B Sacred
B Saint James
B Way
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Zusammenfassung:An increasing number of pilgrims make their way each year to the Sanctuary of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia. For many, the Way is almost more important than the goal to be achieved, that is, the tomb of the apostle. Can the space thus covered, sometimes taking weeks or months, be considered ‘sacred'? Undoubtedly, the pilgrimage to Compostela unites space and time. But it adds a particular symbolic dimension to them that makes it the quest for the elsewhere, the other and the absolute. As an image of the ‘pilgrimage of human life', the whole formed by the apostolic sanctuary and the path leading to it, thus, acquires a sacred character.
ISSN:2009-7379
Enthält:Enthalten in: The international journal of religious tourism and pilgrimage
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.21427/02ax-eb56