Pilgrimage
Element Pilgrimage Tourism
Faith always contains faith expectancy not required
Penance search for wholeness not required
Community often solitary , but should be open to all often with friends and family , or a chosen interest group
Sacred space silence to create an internal sacred space not present
Ritual externalizes the change within not present
Votive offering leaving behind a part of oneself , letting go , in search of a better life not present ; the travel is the good life
Celebration victory over self , celebrating to remember drinking to forget
Perseverance commitment ; pilgrimage is never over holidays soon end
Background
Further information : Religious tourism Pilgrimages frequently involve a journey or search of moral or spiritual significance . Typically , it is a journey to a shrine or other location of importance to a person 's beliefs and faith , although sometimes it can be a metaphorical journey into someone 's own beliefs . Many religions attach spiritual importance to particular places : the place of birth or death of founders or saints , or to the place of their `` calling '' or spiritual awakening , or of their connection ( visual or verbal ) with the divine , to locations where miracles were performed or witnessed , or locations where a deity is said to live or be `` housed '' , or any site that is seen to have special spiritual powers . Such sites may be commemorated with shrines or temples that devotees are encouraged to visit for their own spiritual benefit : to be healed or have questions answered or to achieve some other spiritual benefit . A person who makes such a journey is called a pilgrim . As a common human experience , pilgrimage has been proposed as a Jungian archetype by Wallace Clift and Jean Dalby Clift . [ 4 ] The Holy Land acts as a focal point for the pilgrimages of the Abrahamic religions of Judaism , Christianity , and Islam . According to a Stockholm University study in 2011 , these pilgrims visit the Holy Land to touch and see physical manifestations of their faith , confirm their beliefs in the holy context with collective excitation , and connect personally to the Holy Land . [ 5 ] The Christian priest Frank Fahey writes that a pilgrim is `` always in danger of becoming a tourist '' , and vice versa since travel always in his view upsets the fixed order of life at home , and identifies eight differences between the two : [ 6 ]
A pilgrimage is a journey, often into an unknown or foreign place, where a person goes in search of new or expanded meaning about the self, others, nature, or a higher good, through the experience. It can lead to a personal transformation, after which the pilgrim returns to their daily life.