“I want to go again and again”: spiritual emotions and self-improvement through pilgrimage

• Main Author: Seise, Claudia (Azizah)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Social Engineering Laboratory, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Bangka Belitung 2019
• Subjects: BL Religion; BP1 Islam; BP173 Islamic sociology; BP174 The Practice of Islam; BP176 The five duties of a Moslem. Pillars of Islam; BP184 Religious ceremonies, rites etc; BP188 Islamic religious life; H10 Societies
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/72914/1/article_I%20want%20to%20go%20again%20and%20again_publ..pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/72914/; https://society.fisip.ubb.ac.id/index.php/society/article/view/75/61

This article aims to understand what it is that has made and still makes millions of Muslims taking great physical and financial hardship to go on the Muslim pilgrimage. It seems that the reason why Muslims yearn to visit Mecca has to be understood by looking at what emotions, and especially spiritu...