Pilgrimage, past and present

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🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Peter Stanford reflects on the meaning of pilgrimage across world history, considering whether we share anything in common with pilgrims of the past. Speaking with Emily Briffett, he traces different pilgrim routes and shrines across the globe to understand what drove people to undertake long, and often dangerous, holy journeys. (Ad) Peter Stanford is the author of Pilgrimage: Journeys of Meaning (Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2021). Buy it now from Waterstones: https://go.skimresources.com?id=71026X1535947&xcust=historyextra-social-histboty&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fpilgrimage%2Fpeter-stanford%2F9780500252413 Subscribe to BBC History Magazine or BBC History Revealed this season and receive a book of your choice worth up to £30* at https://www.buysubscriptions.com/subscribe2022 Listeners from outside the UK can also subscribe *Book promotion only available for UK residents Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:48.1	What does it mean to go on pilgrimage? And what has driven people to take on these long and often dangerous journeys.
0:57.0	In his book, Pilgrimage Journeys of Meaning, the author Peter Stamford reflects on these questions,
1:04.5	considering whether modern pilgrimages share anything in common with those of the past.
1:10.3	Emily Briffitt spoke to Peter to find out more.
1:13.9	Hi Peter, it's lovely to be talking to you today. It's lovely to be here. Thank you very much.
1:18.7	I want to start by asking you, what do you think makes pilgrimage worth talking about?
1:24.6	Pilgrimage has got the most enormously long history. We've been doing it,
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