Pilgrimage is best done when it is voluntary. Some religions made pilgrimages mandatory and some even made it as a penitential act. I think by doing a voluntary pilgrimage,pilgrims will get more out of the pilgrimage. Let's say your parents told you that you must go to college or else you are cut off from whatever they provide you when you were still in High School, don't you think that because you are being forced to be here, you will miss out the real essence of college life?
Pilgrimage is supposed to be about searching for the great moral significance in your life and not to pay for you sins or to just show to the world that you are indeed a good follower of that religion. Turner discussed the difference between Pilgrimages that are liminiod and liminal.
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