Micro Pilgrimages: A New Post-Secular Trend?
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. What Is a Micro Pilgrimage?
3. The Emergence of the Micro Pilgrimage
4. The COVID-19 Pandemic and Micro Pilgrimages
5. Micro Pilgrimages and Roman Catholicism
6. Protestantism and Post-Secular Spirituality
7. Conclusions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
1 | Kevin Griffin and Razaq Raj define “traditional pilgrimage” as “a journey to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion” (Griffin and Raj 2017). However, and as their article shows, the definition of pilgrimage has become somewhat fluid in recent years. |
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Bailey, A.E. Micro Pilgrimages: A New Post-Secular Trend? Religions 2022, 13, 665. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13070665
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Chicago/Turabian StyleBailey, Anne E. 2022. "Micro Pilgrimages: A New Post-Secular Trend?" Religions 13, no. 7: 665. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13070665