Language:
English
Year of publication:
2019
Titel der Quelle:
Interreligious Relations and the Negotiation of Ritual Boundaries
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2019) 111-131
Keywords:
Pilgrims and pilgrimages History
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism
;
Judaism Relations
;
Christianity
Abstract:
Pilgrim itineraries often promote trips to the Holy Land so that pilgrims may see where Jesus walked, make the Bible more real, and strengthen their Christian faith. I suggest, however, that Christian pilgrimage may also be an interreligious and intercultural encounter. The environmental bubble of the guided group pilgrimage encloses not only the Christian pilgrim and his pastor but often the Jewish-Israeli guide as well. In such groups, Christian pilgrims’ initial religious views may be confirmed or challenged through the guide’s presentation of Christian holy sites, the Bible, and his own life history. Guides may struggle with their attraction to and repulsion from Christianity and their own Jewish commitments in the course of shepherding pilgrims through the Land.Based on three decades of experience guiding Christian groups and interviews with guides, pastors, and pilgrims, I demonstrate how Christian pilgrims and Jewish guides negotiate their expectations and commitments through performance in the charged landscape of the Holy Land. While the convergence of Christian pilgrims and Jewish guides over the significance of the land and its sites creates avenues for shared discourse, the developing interaction reflects a wide variety of different attitudes toward Judaism, Christianity, and the relation between the two.By describing the spatial and institutional setting of the pilgrimage tour and citing several guide-group interactions, I offer new perspectives on the performative dimensions of interreligious encounter. An understanding of the dynamics of this case can sensitize us to the roles that power, ritual setting, and space play in interreligious hospitality and ritual.
Abstract:
This section is a response to Jackie Feldman’s chapter titled ‘Christian Holy Land Pilgrimage as an Interreligious Encounter.’
Description / Table of Contents:
Fischer, Nina. Reponse. Ibid. 133-135.
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-05701-5_8
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-05701-5_9
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