Abstract
This chapter demonstrates the core role of travel within religious narratives, foundation stories and understandings of life and death. It also shows that travel is at the heart of many religious practices, specifically pilgrimage, missionary travel, ‘holy war’, and flight from religious persecution. Pilgrimage has long been strongly engrained in world religions, enabling the pilgrim to be spiritually transformed and to become closer to their God/gods, both at the destination and also through the process of the journey. Missionary travel enables the missionary to serve their God, ‘save souls’ and achieve salvation. Religious war can for some serve similar spiritual purposes to pilgrimage and missionary travel although of course creates great suffering. On an associated theme, religious persecution has been throughout history and is still a driver of travel, along with much misery.
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