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The US has never had much of a pilgrimage tradition – perhaps now is the opportunity

  • Written by James Mills, Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, State University of New York at Oneonta
imageSites of pilgrimages are few and far between in the U.S.Thomas A. Ferrara/Newsday RM via Getty Images

One feature of the pandemic has been the curtailment of a practice that for millennia has provided an outlet for healing in times of crisis: pilgrimage.

From restrictions on the Hajj for Muslims to the Catholic pilgrimage to Lourdes going virtual,...

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