Kirstin Timmons, Image and Pilgrimage; Reflection One

   Turner describes Liminality in the early chapters. Turner also talks about a locality and who it relates to that of liminality. Here he discusses "their religious life was also locally fixated; the parish was their spiritual manor" (4). he later explains it as "In societies with few economic opportunities the movement away from limited circles of friends, neighbors, and local authorities, all rooted alike in the soil, the only journey possible for those not merchants, peddlers, minstrels, jugglers, tumblers, wandering friars, or outlaws, or their modem equivalents, is a holy journey, a pilgrimage or a crusade." which I find interesting as it indicates to me that only pilgrims of the Christian faith were seen as moveable and spreadable, the others being stuck where they were. I find this to be fascinating as while yes, religion did often spread as pilgrims moved, merchants and peddlers did the same and introduced many to new items and knowledge, that was the point of trade routes. Though I see where they are coming from as historically religion is also often traded amongst communities and it becomes much easier to do so when a small town consists of nothing but Christians who relate almost every activity they do to a ritual, allowing them to be closer to gof.