Journey From a “Small Place” to a “Big Place”: Mediated and Divided Sanctity in a Pilgrimage Holiday  

作　　者：Rachel Sharaby 

机构地区：[1]Ashkelon Academic College,Ashkelon,Israel

出　　处：《Cultural and Religious Studies》2020年第1期60-74,共15页文化与宗教研究（英文版）

基　　金：I thank the African Studies Centre(ASCL),Leiden University,The Netherlands,for inviting me as a guest researcher which enabled me to work on this manuscript.I would also like to thank Dr.Amos Ron,head of the Department of Tourism,Ashkelon Academic College,for his enlightening comments,which greatly contributed to the article.

摘　　要：Sacred spaces have usually been presented dichotomously in pilgrimage studies:small or big,near or far,at the“center of the world”or at the margins.This article discusses a unique combined pilgrimage during the Seged holiday of the Jews of Ethiopia,which is still celebrated today.Based on testimonies,I conclude that they made a physical and symbolic journey from the“small place”to the“big place”.The“big place”,similarly to the sacredness itself,was also divided into two memory places.The liturgy of the Seged mediated between the“small place”and the“big place”.It also created a connection between the“small time”which includes the small everyday actions,and the“big time”which includes large leaps toward a mythological past.

关 键 词：Seged Ethiopia SACRED space LITURGY RITUAL 

分 类 号：K92[历史地理—人文地理学]