To pray and to play: Post-postmodern pilgrimage at Lourdes

Mini-Miracles: Transformations of Self from Consumption of the Lourdes pilgrimage

This paper explores transformations of self through pilgrimage consumption. A three year ethnographic study of Lourdes, one of the largest Catholic pilgrimage destinations, reveals the concept of “mini-miracles” to refer to those miracles that occur in and are important to an individual’s life, but are unlikely ever to be officially deemed as miracles in the eyes of the church. Mini-miracles tr...

To pray or not to pray: considering gender and religious concordance in praying with the ill.

Analysis of Covariance was conducted on quantitative data collected by chaplains from January 2005 to December 2008. Data from 82 Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant chaplains, consisting of 53 CPE students and 29 professional chaplains were used in this study. Overall, chaplains exhibited a statistically significant higher rate of prayer with patients from their own religion (religious concordanc...

Bus Assignment to Iranian Pilgrims During Pilgrimage

Among the multitude of activities of Hajj Organization which require careful planning bus assignment to the Iranian pilgrim caravans d g pilgrimage is the most important one. The objective of this assignment is to have a minimum number o standing passengers/empty seats, while satisfying a large number of operational and religious constrain. This problem was formulated as a large scale zero-one ...

Pilgrimage to a Scientific Shrine

In the summlnler of 1954 my wvife and I enjoyed a long-deferred European holiday which included a miiotor trip in central France. \Ve hired a small Citro&n, and -M., being miiore adaptable than I, soon mlastered the technique of shifting gears on the dashboard and did all the driving. Arriving ill Clerml-ont-Ferrand one afternoon and learning that there was a miiotor road up a nearby mounitaini...

Incorporating religious practice in marital interventions: To pray or not to pray?