Event Running and Pilgrimage: A Comparative Case Study

Janice Poltrick-Donato's ‘Event Running and Pilgrimage' links pilgrimage with the trials and triumphs of the amateur event runner. She demonstrates the statistical and existential parallels between the two practices, and shows how the suffering and accomplishments of running are experience...

Full description

Saved in:  
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Poltrick-Donato, Janice (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
Journals Online & Print:
Drawer...
Fernleihe:Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste
Published: Dublin Institute of Technology [2019]
In: The international journal of religious tourism and pilgrimage
Year: 2019, Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Pages: 95-108
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Event / Marathon running / Secularism / Pilgrimage / Self
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
ZA Social sciences
ZB Sociology
Further subjects:B Communitas
B destination pilgrimage
B marathon
B Camino
B Pilgrimage
B rite of passage
B event running
B Gender
B journey pilgrimage
B the zone
B Flow
Online Access: Volltext (doi)
Volltext (kostenfrei)
Description
Summary:Janice Poltrick-Donato's ‘Event Running and Pilgrimage' links pilgrimage with the trials and triumphs of the amateur event runner. She demonstrates the statistical and existential parallels between the two practices, and shows how the suffering and accomplishments of running are experienced by some runners as a form of secular pilgrimage, a ‘journey to the self.'
ISSN:2009-7379
Contains:Enthalten in: The international journal of religious tourism and pilgrimage
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.21427/b5x6-4963