A pilgrimage is perceived to be religious in nature, but this is not the only type of pilgrimage, If you are a fanatical fan of anything, movies, auto racing, nature, skiing, surfing, diving, and so on attending an event or visiting these places that are critical to the sport/event/history can be considered a pilgrimage.
No, because it is not commanded in the Bible. All that means is that one should not be coerced in to pilgrimage, it can be a joyful and rewarding experience as in Chaucers day. I have been several times to Jerusalem and have both been a member of a group of pilgrims at Walsingham and a leader of such a group regularly!
People who go on a pilgrimage are called pilgrims; such journeys are religiously motivated, although the term can also be used metaphorically to describe a trip that someone makes to do something that they consider to be extremely important, even if it is not actually religious in nature. All devout Muslims, for example, are religiously obligated to visit the holy city of Mecca, at least once in their lives, so that is a very frequent form of pilgrimage. A Roman Catholic might wish to visit the Vatican as a religious pilgrimage. It is an act of piety for a Hindu to bathe in the waters of the river Ganges. And so forth.
A pilgrimage means a trip with a purpose, , so it could be said that if a person who wants to return to the place of their birth are going on a pilgrimage.
3rd June 2009 A person who goes on a pilgrimage to any sacred place does so for a variety of spiritual reasons: seek guidance from God, draw closer to God, give thanks for a blessing, spend an extended time in prayer, seek forgiveness for sins, visit place considered sacred for some reason, be with people who share the same faith. People of every major religious group go on pilgrimage. Jews go on pilgrimage to the Western Wall (Wailing Wall) of the destoyed Temple in Jerusalem. Jews believe that the temple was the holiest place on Earth because it was in the Holy of Holies that the Ark of the Covenant stood. In the Ark were placed some manna from the time in the wilderness, the rod which Aaron used to bring water from a rock and the tablets on which were written the Ten Commandments. Christians go on pilgrimage to the Holy Land where Jesus lived, was crucified and rose from the dead. Anglican Christians go on pilgrimage to Cantebury Cathedral, the see of their spiritual leader, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Catholic Christians also have numerous sacred sites of pilgrimage: the Holy Land, Rome, and the places where they believe the Virgin Mary appeared (e.g. Lourdes in France, Knock in Ireland, Fatima in Portugal) Muslims go on pilgrimage to Mecca, and its surrounding area, in Saudia Arabia. Here they visit places associated with Muhammad and spend time in prayer. Buddhists have numerous places of pilgrimage, the 4 main ones being: * Lumbini in Nepal, the birth place of the Buddha. * Bodh Gaya where the Buddha became enlightenes. * Sarnath where he delivered his first teaching * Kusinagar in India where he attained mahapaprinirvana (died and did not reincarnate). Hindus have numerous places of pilgrimage. Sikhs go on pilgrimage to the Golden Temple in Amristar in India.
israel (jerusalem)
A pilgrimage can mean any journey that has spiritual aspects not just religious ones.
What you should do is choose a religious group that strikes your fancy and see if you can't go with them. With Jews, the obvious answer is to go with Birthright for a free trip, but Christians and Muslims have their own unique organizations.
A pilgrimage is a religious journey, and people would often times, and they still do, go on a pilgrimage to hopefully become more religious, to connect with their god(s). Or they might do it to prove their loyalty to their religion.
Travelling to a religious place (a place holy to your religious beliefs) is to go on a pilgrimage.
A pilgrimage is perceived to be religious in nature, but this is not the only type of pilgrimage, If you are a fanatical fan of anything, movies, auto racing, nature, skiing, surfing, diving, and so on attending an event or visiting these places that are critical to the sport/event/history can be considered a pilgrimage.
pilgrimage is important to religious people, because they go there to look at places or things to do with their religion. For example, a christian might go on a pilgrimage to Bethlehem, to see where Jesus was born, and walk where Joseph and Mary mayhave walked.
holiday is more useless because pilgrimage is better to get closer to god
if they have a chance they would go to Meka and Madina,not to Jerusalem.Hajj is done in Meka
A pilgrimage is just a journey to a religion's "holy" areas like for Christianity, Judaism, and Islam there is Jerusalem. So if the religion has a holy place on Earth in a sense they can take a pilgrimage/journey to there.
because ur going 2 u on a religious journey
"pilgrimage" is when people go to a geographical place , that is deemed holy . "Christianity" is a religious ideology , like "Communisim" is a political ideology.......rephrase your question.