Pilgrimage, past and present
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The History of Pilgrimage
Pilgrimage is an idea of people searching for meaning. Judaism had a very strong tradition of what they wouldn't particularly call it pilgrimage at the time, but they were pilgrimages in the New Testament. In Islam, you have this whole tradition of going on pilgrimage to Jerusalem - and we've been doing it forever really. So I think it's a kind of revival of that tradition. We're reviving that. The pilgrimage revival is seeing that happening.
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