Discuss Turner’s thesis on the social significance of pilgrimages

The social significance of pilgrimages, we shall first examine Turner’s thesis on pilgrimage as a social process, where he emphasizes the communities in pilgrimages and their liminal character. We shall then see how pilgrimage is related to different aspects of social life, namely, social and cultural integration, educational, economic, and political and other kinds of activities.

The Social Significance of Pilgrimages:

Turner holds that pilgrimage is a social process. He emphasizes the communities in pilgrimages and their liminal character. He has shown how pilgrimage is related to different aspects of social life, namely, social and cultural integration, education, economic, political and other kinds of activities.

1. Turner’s Thesis:

Victor W. Turner holds that pilgrimage has the classic three-stage form of a rite of passage:

(i) Separation,

(ii) The liminal stage i.e. the journey itself, the sojourn at the shrine, and the contact with the sacred, and

(iii) Reaggregation i.e. the home-coming.

In this context, Turner asks us to consider two modalities of social experience as under:

(i) Of structure, and

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(ii) Of cornmunitas.

(i) Structure:

In structure people are (a) differentiated by social role and (b) Position and linked in an often hierarchical political system.

(ii) Communitas:

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