This essay arises from research carried out between the summer of 2018 and spring 2020 among pilgrims who had participated in Camino de Santiago north-western Spain St Patrick’s Purgatory, on Lough Derg northwest Ireland. Research focused embodied experience relation to pilgrim motivation, groundedness enduring power sacred travel as ritual. Convergent considerations about psychology, theology ...

The article examines pilgrimage tourism as a modern socio-cultural phenomenon on the example of major world religions. An attempt is made to explain and determine its features by drawing parallel between religious (cultural) pilgrimage. It determined that basis an ancient tradition, which becoming global against background weakening role political ideologies. In addition, contributes expansion ...

This paper analyses the shift from constructivist to existentialist conceptions of authenticity in tourism. I argue that the existentialist approach represents a withdrawal from an ongoing and unresolved debate, rather than the reconciliation that it has sometimes been presented as. Such an approach has divorced the notion of authenticity from any inherent relationship to the act of touring. Ut...

Some religious rites of Hajj (the obligatory pilgrimage that many Muslims make to Mecca) cannot be performed during menstruation, so women may wish to suppress their menses. Eliminating monthly periods could further improve the quality of women’s lives, reducing both physical pain and mood swings that can be disruptive or debilitating, to say nothing of the inconvenience and cost of managing mo...

The aim of this report is to present the methodology used and the main results on the socio-demographic profile of the pilgrims travelling the route between Santiago de Compostela and Fisterra. This report forms a part of the study that will make it possible to understand the social and economic impact of pilgrimage for the local communities along the route, and the heritage processes and trans...

introduction: the pilgrimage to ka’beh (god’s house in mecca) is a special opportunity in the life of most muslims. female pilgrims try to postpone menstruation during the pilgrimage by taking hormonal medicines. however, women are seen in this disorder. this paper aimed to determine the frequency of menstrual disorders and related factors among female pilgrims of umrah mufradah in 2012.methods...