فهرست مطالب سید شهاب الدین عودی

The author of this study employed a qualitative approach to explore the pilgrims’ experiences of the suspension and subsequent lifting of the suspension of the embodied-spatial pilgrimage to Hazrat Masoumeh’s shrine. In the framework of a phenomenological analysis, semi-structured interviews, observation, and participatory observation were done as methods of data collection. The participants in the data collection procedure were the pilgrims who came to visit the shrine of Hazrat Masoumeh (sa) after the relative abatement of Covid, and who had suspended their in-person pilgrimage during the height of the pandemic outbreak. After conducting thirty pilgrim interviews, the process of research data classification was set up, and content analysis was carried out. The research findings indicate that pilgrims feel more like ‘real pilgrims’ when they engage in person pilgrimage and physically interact with spiritual and material components of Hazrat Masoumeh’s shrine. Additionally, the study highlights how participants’ ‘pilgrim identity’ declined as a result of virtual pilgrimage during the Covid peak period. Thus, discussing concepts like spatiality and physicality, it is found that these pilgrims try to reclaim their ‘pilgrim identity’ in the post-Covid era by following a compensatory process during the in-person pilgrimage through reformulating pilgrimage rituals in the pre-Covid style.