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This article relates the autoethnographic lived experiences of the participant of a religious sojourn and the ensuing implications for imbibing the sacred. Drawing on the site of the Tablighi Jamaat’s 40-day khuruj in Pakistan, the author focuses on the beginning, middle, and end periods of the travel to expand on Eliade’s notion of sacred time as one that is fraught with continuous conflicts with the profane. The article concludes that experiencing spirituality in modernity requires considerable physical and mental effort apart from physically transcending the boundaries of space and time.
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