Introduction: The pilgrimage to Ka’beh (God’s house in Mecca) is a special opportunity in the life of most Muslims. Female pilgrims try to postpone menstruation during the pilgrimage by taking hormonal medicines. However, women are seen in this disorder. This paper aimed to determine the frequency of menstrual disorders and related factors among female pilgrims of Umrah Mufrada...

This essay arises from research carried out between the summer of 2018 and spring 2020 among pilgrims who had participated in Camino de Santiago north-western Spain St Patrick’s Purgatory, on Lough Derg northwest Ireland. Research focused embodied experience relation to pilgrim motivation, groundedness enduring power sacred travel as ritual. Convergent considerations about psychology, theology ...

The study is the result of many years work by Jeanne Kormina among contemporary Orthodox believers in Russia. It based on methodological approaches anthropology pilgrimage; author describes mobile life modern pilgrims northwest Russia basis rich field material. Contextualizing adopted English-language literature, discovers such a phenomenon as nomadism, which completely special and previously n...

Every year, hundreds of millions people around the world travel to sacred places worship and learn. While practice pilgrimage has a long tradition is an important part many religious traditions spiritual development individuals, some scholars have begun question sustainability modern travel. Not only does pilgrimage, like other forms mobility, contribute emission greenhouse gases waste accumula...