Angela White: Outside Reading 2: God, Pilgrimage, and Acknowledgement of Place

When doing research for my final paper, I came across this article by Mark Wynn called God, Pilgrimage, and Acknowledgment of Place. I found this article particularly interesting because not only did it give a brief history of pilgrimages (like most of the articles I found did), but it also provided a different perspective. It touches on the negative backlash of pilgrimages. The paper ties pilgrimages to superstitious beliefs, it said that pilgrimages "imply a crude experiential or emotional understanding of the nature of faith", and that they "rest upon a primitive conception of divine localizability". Though I do not exactly agree with the support and ideas that Wynn used in his paper, I found it particularly interesting to see a negative side of pilgrimages, where most writings that I found either praised them or simply provided a non-biased history of them.