Angela White: Required Reading 6: Pilgrimage as a Liminal Phenomenon

Turner and Turner describe liminal in Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture as “belonging to a mid-stage in a religious processual structure consisting of rites of separation, limen or margin, and reaggregation” (231). According to the text, a liminal pilgrimage is not as meaningful as a liminoid pilgrimage, because then tend be something that people just do for pleasure in their spare time. I kind of disagree with this. I feel like a person can choose to go on a pilgrimage for any reason they like, and it should be just as important. Just because a person is not doing it for Holy reasons, shouldn’t mean that it is not meaningful. I do feel like pilgrimages are important for becoming close with God, but I feel like they can be made for personal reasons as well.