Kelley Calvin: Reflection on Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture

Chapter Five: Locality and University in Medieval Pilgrimages

In this chapter, the Turners touch on multiple medieval devotions and how they turned into pilgrimages. Pilgrimages thrived in the High Middle Ages, especially those to Marian Shrines. Many started as grass-roots than rose to regional then rose to patriotic devotions. These pilgrimages were theologically orthodox. 

As well, this chapter touched base on Muslim invasions in North Africa ans Spain plus the Reformation. Early on in medieval Marian pilgrimages, they carried on the post-Islamic idea of replicating the lost shrines of Palestine. Another, English example of this would be Our Lady of Walsingham. The crazy thing about these shrines is that hundreds of years later, they are still thriving as though they were created yesterday. 

Moreover, this is another work that describes the significance of communitas. Communitas still "persists through religious and theological change". Sort of like how we can always tie it into class, you can always tie it into history. Communitas, however, does require frame, focus, and flow. Communitas is the one thing of all religions that continues. Symbols and sings, at times, can change. People die and they change too. However, the communitas these religions hold are always present.