In
Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture, it says that once someone
takes a pilgrimage, they will be freed from social structures. I think that
most people who take a pilgrimage will come across some of the ideas we learned
in the class. The ideas of flow and communitas seem like they would be present
in the same way on a pilgrimage as they are on a hike. To me this means that a
hike on the AT could be similar to a pilgrimage for some people. The only thing
that could be different between the two could be the way people approach a
pilgrimage. People on a pilgrimage may have a deeper spiritual appreciation
than people simply hiking. Still though I think that some hikers turn their
trips into a self made spiritual journey, which make them seem almost identical
to a pilgrimage.
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