November 30th, 2015
There are 4 main types of Pilgrimages, the first two of which occur in all the historical religions (Turner,17-18):
1. Those pilgrimages which, on the authority of documentary or widespread traditional evidence, were established by the founder of a historical region, by his first, or by important national evangelists of his faith, may be termed prototypical pilgrimages.
2. pilgrimages which bear quite evident traces of syncretism with older religious beliefs and symbols.
3. Many of the pilgrimages best known in the popular and literary traditions of the christian world originated in the European middle ages and take their tone from the theological and philosophical emphases of that epoch.
4. Finally, attention must be paid to a genus of pilgrimage which has grown steadily in the post-Tridentine period of European Catholicism, particularly in the 19 and 20th centuries.
These allow people to classify their pilgrimages and also give stepping stones to understanding their individual journey.
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