Original scientific paper
Anthropologist on Pilgrimage. On the Problem of Understanding and Interpreting Experience (Summary)
Marijana Belaj
; Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu, Odsjek za etnologiju i kulturnu antropologiju
Hrvoje Čargonja
Zoran Čiča
orcid.org/0000-0002-6251-3245
Boštjan Kravanja
Ankica Marinović
Lidija Radulović
Snježana Zorić
Abstract
Understanding (subjective) experience of encountering another reality, the sacred, and the perception of the sacred, implies not only the acceptance of the belief that the sacred exists in itself and that it is located in place, in the context of the pilgrimage phenomenon, but also one’s own experience of the belief. The problems of research and understanding of direct experiences (not only pilgrimage experiences), the mechanisms that trigger them and their practical effect, are usually interpreted through methodological or interpretational limits. On the example of several elements of the anthropology of pilgrimage, the introductory paper offers a perspective that the issue of cultural-anthropological dealings with experience lies primarily in the interdisciplinary valuing of experiences of cultural anthropologists themselves. The thesis is further discussed by several colleagues whose research is focused on religious themes.
Keywords
experiences; religious experiences; anthropology of pilgrimage; cultural anthropology
Hrčak ID:
63175
URI
Publication date:
22.12.2010.
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