PhD student discusses pilgrimage on BBC Radio 4’s Beyond Belief

01.02.2012

Pilgrimage Phd Student

Every year more than 100 million people around the world go on pilgrimage, the biggest mass migration of people on the planet. Two and a half million Muslims visited Mecca for last year's Hajj and over 600,000 visited Graceland to worship at the shrine of Elvis Presley.

Tourist companies specialising in pilgrimage tours are expanding - it's big business. Listen to Connie Hill-Smith who is currently writing her doctoral thesis on cyber pilgrimage (School of Theology, Religious Studies and Islamic Studies) discuss whether there is something in the human psyche which seeks fulfilment from a physical journey, but one that has a spiritual motive, and also consider the growing phenomenon of cyber pilgrimage. Can a "virtual" journey in any way be seen as comparable?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01b9hjd/Beyond_Belief_Pilgrimage/#programme-info

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Elinor Howells
01570 424 859 | e.howells@tsd.ac.uk

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