ABSTRACT
You might expect a pilgrimage or a ritual activity to end in an ecstatic, or otherwise sweeping and profound, experience; pilgrimages are, aft er all, characterized by an experience of spiritual transformation (Gothóni 1993). Movements and ways of moving are important dimensions of human spirituality. Religious studies recognize a complex reciprocal interaction between ways of moving, the environment and human experience: ‘ritual-like behaviour demonstrates the importance of the body and its way of moving in space and time. Th e body acts within an environment that appears to require it to respond in certain ways’ (Bell 1997: 139).
