Arbaeen walk as a threshold identity
Document Type : Scientific-Research Article
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farhangian university
Abstract
As one of the biggest cultural and social events in the Islamic world, Arbaeen walking ritual is being held every year with the welcome of pilgrims. This collective movement has emerged based on historical, religious, geographical and political components and in the form of Arbaini identity. The purpose of this study is to investigate and analyze the lived experience and interpretation of student teachers as pilgrims from the Arbaeen pilgrimage. In this study, the researcher has used the narrative interview technique in order to collect data while participating in the walk and participatory observation. The statistical population under study is student teachers who participated in the Arbaeen walk of 1402, who settled in the procession of Farhangian University. Sampling has been done in a targeted and accessible way. Considering that this ritual is considered the suspension of the material thing and during which people are separated from their everyday and ordinary world for a period of time and experience a confrontation with the sacred, therefore the findings of the research are appropriate to the field and for the purpose of deep understanding. Researcher and discipline of the scientific field in the form of dualities, extracted, categorized and arranged, which include: time/place, individual/collective, objective/mental, friend/enemy, poor/rich, plurality/unity, Iranian/Iraqi, Pilgrim/servant is union/separation. The findings indicate that the pilgrims, by participating in this collective ritual, for a period of time, however temporary, coordinate and perform common religious rituals and ceremonies with other pilgrims, and therefore define and recognize themselves in the form of Arbaini identity.
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