Saturday, August 23, 2025

2025 Daily - 08/23/2025 - pilgraimage and my personal trip... SOON!!!

 very tired today... and even tired now at 10:20pm and I had a nap for about an hour in mid-afternoon. Maybe it is the black russian drinks?

Well... off to bed soon. Just watched to Brokenwoods - 5th season. Read some Huckleberry Finn. Tomorrow reading will be devoted to Solieveichick.... And to sleeping in, a zoom program from Mosaic Law, workout, chorus, and picking up Ellen at airport. I hope I can stay the night and from her place go to CBS for service and then meet up w/Sarah for lunch and/or museum.  I need to call Jim and change out meet to another day. 

Today's talk by R. Stein -- interesting ... about pilgimages... Durkheim and Turners ... See some notes from google searches I did... AND CONSIDER/REMEMBER ---  I personally need to go on a pilgrimage .. that is what was the core of my thinking about a trip, retreat, etc.... now that I have lost my sister, mother, and father... I NEEED TO DO THIS SOON!!!!!!  Maybe start with train segments --- with an interlude between Mississippi and Florida - followed by another interlude up to NYC... and then train across...?? Or something like that.... With times for writing, thinking, writing, thinking, meditating!!!!

ONE:

Durkheim did not write extensively on "pilgrimage" directly, but his concepts of collective consciousness, collective effervescence, and the sacred and profane provide a strong theoretical framework for understanding why pilgrims gather and what happens when they doHe viewed religion as a force that creates social solidarity by generating intense emotional experiences in group rituals, a phenomenon he termed collective effervescence, and he saw the sacred objects and sites that pilgrims visit as symbols of this shared social reality. Therefore, pilgrimage can be understood as a ritualistic practice


TWO:

What is Victor Turner's theory of religion?

Like Clifford Geertz and Mary Douglas, Victor Turner considers religion the key to culture and ritual the key to religion. Like them as well, he interprets religion the way believers purportedly do: as beliefs, as beliefs about the cosmos, yet as cosmic beliefs compatible with modern science.
AND:
What are the three great pilgrimages?
Pope Alexander VI officially declared the Camino de Santiago to be one of the "three great pilgrimages of Christendom", along with Jerusalem and the Via Francigena to Rome.


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