Rountree Goddess Article

This Tuesday we talked about the Rountree Goddess article and the different parts of if that relate to the different definitions, theorists, and if it’s actually a pilgrimage. The part of the article that I found most interesting was about pilgrimage being tourism or tourism being pilgrimage. Until this article I haven’t realized how alike pilgrimage to tourism because pilgrimage is a journey to a sacred place and tourism is often thought of as people traveling to a specific place to see that areas popular sites. Another definition of pilgrimage that the article gives is traveling to sites, which embody cultural and individual ideals. This definition is even closer to what I view as a definition of tourism because it’s talking about people traveling to sites with culture and ideas, which are areas people tend to travel to.